You Find What You Look For

You Find What You Look For

He who earnestly seeks good finds favor, but trouble will come to him who seeks evil (Proverbs 11:27 NKJV).

Life has its ups and downs.  We love the up times, but oh, how we hate the down times.  After many disappointments and difficult times, it’s sometimes hard to believe for the best.  We become cynical and jaded, ashamed to be vulnerable and childlike, afraid that our hopes and dreams are foolish in the “real world” that often seems to reward cold calculation.  Yet when we close our hearts to optimism and faith, we close the door on making our dreams come true in this world.  By choosing an optimistic attitude, however, we open ourselves to the possibility that God can turn our negative situations into something positive.

You can choose to be optimistic. Optimism is a learned attitude of faith.  Faith is a choice, not an argument.  It is an inner conviction, an unshakable assurance.  You make a decision to choose optimism, choosing to believe that God will truly work all things together for good.

Focusing on the negative in any situation is counterproductive.  You concentrate on what’s wrong, and soon that’s the only thing you can see.  Positive thoughts help us make positive choices.  Choose to replace negative patterns with positive, empowering thoughts.  Learn to look for the silver lining in the dark clouds of your life.  Expect God to bring good or to bring good out of a bad situation.  See the glass as half-full instead of as half-empty.  Wash the windows of your soul by asking God to cleanse your thoughts every day, replacing negative defeatist thoughts with positive affirmations of faith and hope.