Attitude...

Attitude..it's something that as a teenager I struggle with a lot. My mom is constantly telling me to check my attitude but, what I never realized is that attitude greatly effects my relationship with God but, these last few days, I've come to notice that it really does. I have been struggling in some of my earthly relationships and I have just had a really negative, unchristlike attitude and I kind of took it out on God. In the midst of those struggles I began to feel like God had left me to deal with it all alone and instead of trusting in Him and what His word says, I began to have a really negative attitude towards Him and got really angry that He would leave me and got totally freaked out all because some "feeling" was no longer there. I lost the "feeling" because of my negative attitude. I had decided that everyone had abandoned me including God and refused to feel His presence. James 4:8 says "Come near to God and he will come near to you." That's one of my favorite verses because it reminds me that all I have to do is come to Him and He is there but, my negative attitude blocked that out and I lost sight of it. It's crazy to me that I let some fights with friends erase 18 years worth of my relationship with Abba. Paul is one of my favorite Bible heroes. He endured so much pain and suffering yet, he never complained or had a bad attitude about it. He just took what came and praised God. In Philippians 2:5 Paul writes "Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus". He definantly walked that out, so what about us? Well clearly I need to work on my Christ like attitude and I definantly will be. What about you? Praise God today for all He has blessed you with. That's an easy way to remember that He loves you and never leaves you, and that will surely help get your attitude back on track:)