A Good Outlook
Kathy on Feb 12th 2008
I understand that if you were given a choice to receive one million dollars in one month or a penny doubled every day for 30 days, the penny would be the better choice. At the end of one month you would have over five million dollars!
If we all would take that same concept and apply it to spiritual things how much more content we would all be! If we would start by doing one thing, like being thankful, for instance. In the midst of every day thank God for what is good and there are always good things to be thankful for. Knowing God is number one on the list!
I am learning to do just that and though I sometimes forget, I always come back to it because I know it’s a principal from the word of God and and God’s principals ALWAYS work. There is a brother in Christ who has been through some really tough times. This statement he made recently in an email, jumped out at me: “You can find beauty in every single day of your life. I can’t explain it all; however, I do know that there is something that God does very special for people who are thankful…”
Sometimes I am in a grumbly mood, though I still feel grumbly I will turn my thoughts from grumbly to good and make myself speak thankful, good words…eventually my feelings follow. That’s a pretty amazing concept to me really, but when you consider the Amazing God we serve, well, what more can I say?!
Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. Philippians 4:8
