How is your mood influenced by others. Do you take on their attitudes or their feelings when you are around them alot? Do you start behaving like the people you are around the most? It is said that we are just like the people that we are around the most. Who or What are you around the most? Are you around negative people, are you around people who are constantly complaining, or you around people who are constantly sick, or are you around upbeat people, people who smile alot, people who are generous, fun, giving, healthy, joyful, spiritual, positive? I don't know about you, but I would much rather fall into that latter category. I have been around negative, sickly, frowning, angry people, and I have to tell you, it wears you out.
We as Christians should be like the generous, fun, giving, healthy, joyful, spiritual, positive people. We have no reasons to be the other group of people. Christ did not die on that cross, so we could walk around claiming everything on ourselves that He already took care of. Once we became Christians we took His DNA and now we should mirror Him and not the world. We now have been washed with purification of all that other stuff. I have said it before, don't go dumpster diving after illnesses, poor finances, miserable moods, anger, jealousy, things of your past. Those things have been thrown away, never to be brought up to you again. Leave them in the dumpster. This is one time where another mans' trash is NOT your treasure. Your treasure came down off that cross and redeemed you, He made propitiation for all of you.
1 JOHN 2 v 1-2.....My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but for the whole world.....
1 JOHN 2 v 5-6....But whoever keeps His word, truly the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked....
'propitiation'---greek verb hilaskomai.....meaning 1) "to placate" or "to appease"; 2) "to be propitious and merciful", 3) "to make propitiation for someone"...
He took care of your trash once and for all. So don't start hanging around with the wrong group of people, the type that will bring you down. The word tells us that if we abide in Him, we should also walk like Him, not like those of the world.
How are you spending your time? Are you meditating on Christ and the things of Christ, or are you meditating on things of the world, watching programs on tv that you ought not watch, listening to music that you should not listen to, reading books that fill your mind with wrong thinking, staying on the computer looking at things you have no business looking at. Here is a simple, worn out question but still the most effective way to know if what you are doing is right or not, "What would Jesus do, or better yet, what would Jesus say about what you are doing, about what you are speaking, about what you are thinking? If you are not sure, look in His word, and see what the word says about it.
If your mood does not bring you joy, then you need to look around at your circumstances, your surroundings, your friends, and you need to change where you are spending your time. Yes there are some who have to work around negative people, but you have to be influenced by Christ and not by them. You have to be filled up on the word of GOD so that their mood can not penetrate the wall of your heart and change you. Remember to pray yourself up everyday before you start your day. Pray for protection from evil, and from the things of the world that might influence you in a wrong, negative way.
PS 28 v 7....The LORD is my strength and my shield; My heart trusted in Him, and I am helped....
PS 91 v 4....He shall cover you with His feathers and under His wings you shall take refuge; His truth shall be your shield and buckler.....
Where do you draw your strength, who does your heart trust? Whose protection do you covet? Who determines your mood each day? Who are you most influenced by?
RTB...Numbers 31-33...
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