Ever have those days where you're simply 'in a funk'?
…those days where you feel like your head isn't on quite straight?
…and things just aren't going as smoothly as you would like?
I had one recently.
So I humbly asked God to give me an attitude adjustment.
And he did.
The Lord told me 2 things- and within an hour, He took me out of my 'funk' and filled me with joy.
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God did not place me where I am, so that I could be ungrateful.
Our hearts should always be in a posture of thanksgiving. There is so much to be thankful for every single day, more than we ever deserved.
“The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:22-23
Just as God's mercies are new every morning, shouldn't our gratitude be renewed as well?
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What you know to be true and how you are currently feeling, can sometimes line up with each other. But, when what you know and what you feel do not line up, which one comes out on top? knowledge or present emotion?
I was allowing my current negative attitude overshadow what I know to be true in God's Word, knowledge that should be reason to rejoice always, even if when I don't feel like it.
1 Cor 2:16 (ESV)
“"For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.”
Nobody but God can fully understand the mind of God. Apart from God's Word, we are unable to understand the mind of God. It is only through the Word that we have the mind of Christ.
1 John 5:20-21 (The Message)
And we know that the Son of God came so we could recognize and understand the truth of God—what a gift!—and we are living in the Truth itself, in God's Son, Jesus Christ. This Jesus is both True God and Real Life. Dear children, be on guard against all clever facsimiles.
Growing up, I remember being told to “think before you speak.” I think it would be beneficial, when faced with overwhelming emotion, to think about what we know to be true in God's Word before acting on those present emotions that tend to get the better of us. Don't let your emotions cause your mind and your mouth to be a loose cannon, restrain them with the knowledge of God's truth.
