Be Positive

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.”

—SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL

And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude].

—Ephesians 4:23

Being positive is a choice. It is an attitude we decide to live with and it opens the door for God to work in our lives. However, we also have the choice to be the opposite—we can be negative and open a door to allow the devil to work. When the atmosphere is filled with negativity, it leaves a heavy feeling and a burden we do not need to bear. Even if your situation seems negative, being negative about it is not going to help correct it. Is your problem really your problem, or is it the way you view your problem?

As soon as we allow the negative to slant our viewpoint and become our filter for everything, we lose our joy and our peace. A negative person is not going to get answers from God so they feel confused about what to do and everything goes from bad to worse. Why not help yourself and everyone around you by deciding to look on the bright side?

For many years of my life, I was a very negative person. I was raised in a negative environment, and out of ignorance, I merely continued in what I had always known. I can tell you my life was not enjoyable. It was anything but simple, because I took my challenges in life and made them a lot worse with a bad attitude. It seemed I always had problems and all I did was complain about everything, which only increased the intensity of my problems. Only when I finally started focusing on the positive and releasing the negative did my world settle down and allow peace to return.

You can change the atmosphere you live in from negative to positive beginning right now. God is waiting to answer a lot of those prayers you have prayed, and He needs you to live with an attitude of faith. Have a talk with yourself and be reminded that being negative does not do any good, so why waste your time on something that is useless? Concentrate on the bright side of life and you will be amazed at all the good you can find.