By James Penner
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself." -Luke 10:27
Are you happy with who you are? Are you looking at yourself through God's eyes and not the world's? Are you measuring your success through God's meter and not the Financial News Network? Are you happy with who you are? If not - why not? God is! He made you! He loves you! He redeemed you! He has called you by name and you are His! What's it going to take for you to find comfort in these promises of God in your life today?
Dr. Schuller asks that wonderful question, "What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?" So many times we quickly direct this question outward to dream big dreams and reach a fantastic goal. What if we turned that same question inward? What if you strove to be a better mother or father, grandmother or grandfather. To be a better employer or employee, student or teacher. To be a better neighbor.
Martha Washington, the very first First Lady of our nation, was quoted as saying, "I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances."
What if you suddenly decided to become a major source of encouragement in your family, in your neighborhood, or at the office? What kind of a wonderful world would you find yourself living in? Christ asks that you "love your neighbor as yourself." Give yourself an extreme makeover in your attitude and feel the blessings of God pour all over your life.
