How is your outlook on Life?
By John David Hicks
“This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it” (Psalms 118:24).
How is your outlook on life? Do you enjoy each day to the fullest? Or, do you dray yourself through each day, always looking on the gloomy side?
I had a friend in Seattle who never seemed to have a good day. Her life seemed drudgery and she always felt miserable. One day she heard about the power of choice and she decided she would choose to have a better attitude toward life. She chose for the next twelve hours to enjoy the day. She began to enjoy the people around her and the activities in which she was involved. Then, for the next twelve hours, she again chose to enjoy the day. She soon developed into a positive person that people liked to be around.
Your day is generally conditioned by two five-minute periods—the first five minutes when you wake up and the last five minutes before you go to sleep. The Bible says in Psalm 92:1-2 “It is good to praise the Lord and make music to your name, O Most High, to proclaim your love in the morning and your faithfulness at night.” When you wake up, give thanks to God for life, health, strength and for His blessings. When you lie down at night, thank Him for His faithful guidance and loving mercies through the day.
All of us have much to be thankful for when we take a few moments to think on it. G.K. Chesterton, a Christian writer from the beginning of the twentieth century, wrote these few lines:
Here dies another day
During which I have had eyes, ears, hands
And the great world round me;
And with tomorrow begins another.
Why am I allowed two?