I spent a couple of hours yesterday afternoon enjoying a nice cup of soy chai, basking in the warm sun, sharing an interesting conversation with an equally interesting person. Our talk veered to the plethora of self-help books on the market. Have you noticed that dozens of new self-help books are published every year? Does that mean the already-published ones don't work, or we're dense and need reinforcement, or there are just so many areas to cover that the authors haven't covered them all yet?
An ever-present topic is the power of positive thinking. You know, the glass-half-full, you-can-do-it, everything-you-need-is-already-inside-you kind of stuff. I have to say that no human author can come close to plugging me into the sustaining, endless, positive voltage that I get from God. I mean, here's the guy who created everything, controls everything, knows everything --- and He takes great pleasure in hooking me up to his power line, for Pete's sake!
My three sentence, power of positive thinking mantra comes straight from God's owner's manual.
The Lord your God is with you...He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing. (Zehaniah 3:17)
If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:21)
...for nothing is impossible with God. (Luke 1:37)
It works for me!
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