‘Think on these things.’ Philippians 4:8
Your ability to succeed in life often comes down to a single choice: how to react to what has been done to you in the past, or is being done to you right now. Dr. Victor Frankl endured the holocaust by this principle. The Nazi killed his family, place him in a concentration camp, starved and beat him. When the war ended Frankl was neither broken, bowed, nor bitter. When asked how he endured such treatment with a positive outlook he said, ‘Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedom, to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.’
Ground Zero is a space where the twin towers once stood. Three thousand people died there. And how did New Yorkers choose to respond? A sign at the edge of ground zero proclaims, ‘The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.’ That’s the attitude God’s word calls us to adopt: ‘Whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are of good report…think on these things.’
Every day you choose the clothes you wear, the food you eat, and the attitude you adopt. And there are only two kinds of attitudes; good ones and bad ones. A good attitude is the one the psalmist adopted when he woke up each morning: ‘This is the day the Lord has made; we will rejoice and be glad in it’ (Psalm 118:24). Make that your attitude too!
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