Bible Reading: James 1:1-12
Key
Verse: Verse 2 - “My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;”
Key Words: count it all joy
Someone has
said that a spirit of thankfulness is essential to personal magnetism. Translated, that simply means no one wants to
be around someone who has an unthankful spirit.
Stress
researcher, Hans Selye, claims that two attitudes, more than any other,
influence our quality of everyday life.
On those two emotions “depend our peace of mind, our feelings of
security and insecurity, of fulfillment or frustration; in short, the extent to
which life is considered successful.”
The most
destructive emotion, Selye says, is revenge.
But the one emotion, more than any other, that accounts for the absence
of stress is a spirit of gratitude. Yes,
thankfulness! Revenge is the outworking
of the flesh in us, but thankfulness is an outworking of the Holy Spirit.
Mike McAdams
of Nashville, Tennessee, visited his wife, Cheryl, in the Intensive Care Unit
of a Nashville hospital.
“How is she?”
his pastor asked.
Mike said,
“It’s touch and go. She recognized me,
we prayed together and held hands, and then we quoted James 1:2, ‘My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall
into divers temptations.’” McAdams
went on to say, “You know, it’s impossible to be anxious and thankful at the
same time.”
And he is right, you know. It just depends on which of the two attitudes
you desire the most.
Dr. Mike Rouse
What to do:
✞Live by God’s Word, not by your emotions.
✞Understand
that you’ll never develop genuine friendships
if you have an unthankful spirit.
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