Attitude: Part 2
"It's Your Choice”

A. Josh. 24:15, “Choose you this day whom you will serve...” You and I have several choices
we can make in life. In fact you have several choices you have to make every day.
You can choose to be in a good mood or...not. Every time something bad happens, you can choose to be a victim or...choose to learn from it and overcome. Every time you hear somebody whining and complaining, you can choose to join the pity party or...refuse it and look for answers and remain optimistic. Become a part of the problem or a part of the solution.
a. No, it's not always easy. The best things in life are rarely easy. But life is about
choices. Optimism and pessimism are choices you have to make every day. Did you know that discouragement is a choice and hope is a choice. You can choose to try one more time...or you can choose to quit.
Choose to sing or choose to sob. Choose forgiveness or choose bitterness. You can choose to hate or love another person who has wronged you. You can choose to serve God with all your heart or you can choose to pay Him lip service and loose your soul.
That was the choice God gave Israel in Deut. 30:19?20. “I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; that you may love the LORD your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them."
1. Matt. 27:22, "What then shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?" That’s the most important question in life. And it was not asked by a God Loving, God fearing man. It was asked by an unbelieving heathen, his name was Pilate.
2. You cannot always determine or control your circumstances, but you can always choose how you respond to them. When all is said and done...life is a choice but choices help us learn the difference between right and wrong.
3. That’s a truth spoken in Isa. 7:15, “Curds and honey He shall eat, that He may know to refuse the evil and choose the good.” You gotta learn to take the bad with the good. Otherwise you’ll never learn to tell the difference between clabber and honey and you’ll never go very high in life. Your attitude...will determine your altitude! How high you will rise in life and in your relationship with God.
Acts 20:32.

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