Positivity in all Situations

 Negativity has no place in Christianity; so, if you are in that camp, pray and ask the Lord to make you much more positive and not negative.  Negative people tend to cause other people to be just like them.  Negative people don’t seem to accomplish much.  I think many of us fall into that camp at times, but we need to be careful we don’t camp there long.

One example of this is David, who could have been very negative but didn’t   fall into that trap!!  Now think of this, negativity breeds fear, anxiousness and uncertainty.  Think of the time when David was just a boy and his dad sent him to check on his brothers, who were in King Saul’s army, to see how things were going.  Remember David was just a boy, probably in his teen years.  Maybe David didn’t know what negativity, anxiousness, uncertainty or fear was.  True faith disperses fear, anxiousness and uncertainty.  All of Saul’s soldiers shook with fear every time Goliath, the giant, came out and challenged them.  David was full of faith, in fact, when a bear or a lion came after him while he tended his father’s sheep, he would grab them by their hair and kill them with his hands.  And, he was going to kill Goliath with God’s help and he had no doubt in his mind about that because Goliath had defied the armies of the living God and he knew that God would deliver Goliath into his hands.  

So, while everyone else was shaking in their boots, David had the faith to believe that he would overcome this giant that defied the armies of God.  It was incredible the faith that David had, he didn’t waiver even with all the other negative people and their negative comments going on around him. Please read the 17^th chapter of 1 Samuel.  The worst thing anyone can experience is to have somebody around them that is so negative, because after a while that negativity will wear a person down, it is almost like a cancer that eats away at your mind and body until all of a sudden you are just like they are, and instead of one of you having to be delivered, you both need to be delivered.

What about Joshua and Caleb and the other spies that were sent out to spy out the land of Canaan?  All the other spies came back with a very negative report because of doubt and fear.  Why do you think Joshua and Caleb came back with a different report?  Maybe because they were full of faith and not doubt and fear, please read, Numbers chapters 13 and 14 to help you to get a real picture of what took place.

If you have the kind of people or friends who are so negative around you, pray for them and ask the good Lord to change their way of thinking, and while you are at it, ask the good Lord to keep you from falling into the negative camp; you may even have to confront them with love, and if they still won’t listen then you may need to find new friends. I hope this has been a blessing and an encouragement to all who read it or hear it and may all of you have a super day!!