We’ve all met people like this – happy one minute, but with a “bad” attitude the next. In fact, we can be (and often are) people like this. More often than we care to admit.
When things are going well, it is easy to have a “good” attitude isn’t it? But it is when we find ourselves in difficult or challenging circumstances that the tide can suddenly turn and then our world quickly becomes much smaller and much darker – unless we allow God to intervene in some way.
For it is generally believed that our attitudes include three components: an affective component (feelings), a behavioural component (the effect of attitude on behaviour) and a cognitive component (belief and knowledge). In essence what this means is that our feelings affect our behaviour and our behaviour affects our thoughts. I can relate, can you?
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So how can we foster a good attitude and nip a bad attitude in the bud?
Kenneth W Hagin offers some insight with his three key principles of attitude:
- Attitude is a choice. In other words, our attitude is not determined by our circumstances but by our ability to choose. In any situation, we can choose to have a good attitude or a bad attitude. Either way, it remains our choice.
- Our attitude determines who we are and what we can do. A positive attitude motivates us to go further and achieve what we set out to do, while a negative attitude will only discourage us and prevent us from even getting out of the starter block.
- Our attitude has the power to change our life. To improve it or to make it worse. To cause us to win or to lose. To spur us on to achieve our dreams or cause us to let them die.
I would, however, add to this: From my personal experience in recent years, when I have felt a bad attitude coming on, whether due to the fact that I am tired or because I had a particularly challenging day at work, I have had to decide in that very moment whether to pursue that particular way of thinking about my situation or instead, choose to allow God to help me have a better, more positive attitude.
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It starts with me.
But once I have made that choice, it is only the Lord who can strengthen me and empower me to do something that I don’t necessarily want to do but do anyway because it brings honour to Him and ultimately, helps me better deal with those things that are causing me to have a bad attitude in the first place.
See more at: www.rhema.org/attitude-your-key-to-success
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