Being Successful Attitude of “Good”

Being Successful

Attitude of “Good”

 

To be successful you and I must have an attitude of “Good”

If we focus on “Bad” our attitude will keep us from being productive

In my walk with the Lord I have realized God makes

“All things work for the good of those who love Him” Romans 8:28

I have learned I never have a “Bad” day

I stopped using the word “Bad” to describe the days I don’t like  

Because I have learned

“All things God works for the good of those who love Him”

So I may have a hard day but not a bad day

And God has made us more than conquerors through Him, in all things

Attitude of “Good”

To be successful you and I must have an attitude of “Good”.

If we focus on “Bad” our attitude

 will keep us from being productive.

In my walk with the Lord I have realized God makes…

 “All things work for the good of those who love Him”

Romans 8:28

I have learned I never have a “Bad” day.

I stopped using the word “Bad”

to describe the days I don’t like.  

As I look back on my life,

I have almost died three times.

 The last time I was in the hospital two

weeks and a nursing home six weeks.

Those were not “Bad” times.

When Sandy went through cancer,

chemo and radiation treatment

 and more recently when we were

told she has a brain tumor…

Those were not “Bad” times.

What they were, were “Hard” times.

Each one of the “Hard” times

in my life were great times.

 I saw God turn those “Hard” times into “Good”.

Even in my greatest pain I realized it was good…

I remember the nurses changing

the wound vac on my fasciotomy.

When they changed the vacuum dressing

it would be very painful as the skin is

not there to protect the tissue and nerves.

The foam that is placed over the wound sticks

to the tissue and nerves and when removed

is some of the greatest pain you can imagine.

I remember those dressing changes,

I would yell out, “OH…Thank God I am alive”;

 As every part in my body tightens ups and

my hands put a death grip on the bed rails.

The nurses would look and laugh and I would say

“when you feel pain you know you

are alive, thank God I am alive”.

That time of pain was “hard” not “bad”.

That time was “good” not only because it

was another step in the healing process, but

it was good because I realized how wonderful

it was to be alive after being hit by a truck.

God had an attitude of good when

He created the Heavens and the Earth.

Each day as He looked over His work He said…

 “It is good!”

God looked for good and on the sixth day when

He saw man alone and said, “It is not good”...

 He turned a “not good” day into a “very good” day.

I catch every red light.

It seems everything takes longer

to do than what I planned.

Yes, there is enough evil in

each day to call it a day bad.

If we focus on the evil we

will have a “Bad” attitude.

 

But If we focus on our God who

gives us everything we need…

A God who promises to make all things work for our good…

Than we should have an expectation of “Good”.

If you believe in God, you must

believe good triumphs over evil.

And we…

 “In all these things we are more than

conquerors through Him who loved us.”

Scripture Reading

Romans 8:28-39

28And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, whoⁱ have been called according to his purpose. 29For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

More Than Conquerors

31What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? 33Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies. 34Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36As it is written:

“For your sake we face death all day long;

we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”^j

37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,^k neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.