12.13-Attitude Flippers

12.13-

I had some early morning negative attitudes this morning. I don’t know exactly why. I think it has to do with listening to the wrong voices inside my head. There is a flesh voice in there and a spiritual voice in there. When I listen to the fleshly voice I align my thoughts with the evil one who is the great accuser of the brethren.

I moved from that to reflect on several passages that seemed to change my mind about some things.
They are my attitude flippers.

Unless it will hurt the receiver of the gift, always be a generous giver.

Matthew 5.42
42 Give to him who asks of you, and do not turn away from him who wants to borrow from you.

Luke 6.38
38 Give, and it will be given to you. They will [w]pour into your lap a good measure—pressed down, shaken together, and running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return.”

Luke 18.
28 Peter said, “Behold, we have left [h]our own homes and followed You.” 29 And He said to them, “Truly I say to you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, 30 who will not receive many times as much at this time and in the age to come, eternal life.”

Philippians 2.
3 Do nothing [c]from [d]selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves; 4 do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.

2 Corinthians 13.
10 For this reason I am writing these things while absent, so that when present I need not use severity, in accordance with the authority which the Lord gave me for building up and not for tearing down.

Romans 12.
2 And do not be conformed to this [c]world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may [d]prove what the will of God is, that which is good and [e]acceptable and perfect.
3 For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.

And my attitude was better. It was reset by the Amazing Grace of God. It was not set by my flesh voice or the fall and destruction of the public image of anyone on television who has been exposed as being very fleshly.
Larry Wishard