Attitude: Part 1
"The Wisdom of Restaurant Signs"

A. Having survived the Holocost, Victor Frankl once said, "The last of the human freedoms is
the freedom to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances."
1. As you entered a restaurant there was a sign that sounded quite amusing. It said, "Service may vary depending on my mood...and your attitude."
a. Isn’t that true? Have your ever changed someone's "bad" mood with your good
attitude. Be honest. Can you recall a time or two when you've brought others down
with a lousy attitude. It’s amazing how much our attitudes impact our lives and our surroundings. The lives of everybody around us. In fact, I firmly believe that, our environment can be a merciless mirror of our attitudes.
2. Our attitudes exemplify the classic, "you reap what you sow" principle. The world you experience is a reflection of your attitude.
3. Do you want to change your environment? Your circumstances? Your situation? Start with your attitude. In Matt. 5:13?16.
2. Your attitude reflects the real you. The real loving, caring, forgiving, serving child of God or the loveless, bitter, self serving, shriveled up old prune you’ve chosen to be in life.
1. You are what you have chosen to be in life. James the brother of Jesus speaks to this in Jas. 3:13?17, “Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by good conduct that his works are done in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter envy and self?seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic. For where envy and self?seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there.”
2. Your conduct in life is determined by your attitude. Jas. 3:10?12.
3. Rom. 5:5, says, “The love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us.” Are you a child of God? Is the love of God reflected in your life?
4. If you’re a child of God you are indwelt by the Holy Spirit and you are supposed to be filled, to overflowing, with the Holy Spirit. Gal. 5:22-25. Where is the harvest of the Spirit in your life? Is it there or has there been a crop failure in your life?
5. Acts 20:32.

Spur - 04/28/2002 pm