The Power Of Negative Thinking

 

Have you ever considered the Power Of Negative Thinking? What it can do for you and how it can affect your life?

How many people, and how often, do they ask this question? Maybe you did it yourself.

They ask: "WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME?"

And immediately a list of answers come to mind. Perhaps inspired by the devil.

They start thinking: "there's something wrong with my nose. It is too large. My ears stick out; in the slightest breeze I spin round like a revolving door. I look like a car with its doors open. I am too tall, too short, too fat, too thin, too awkward. I am not well educated. I am shy. I am ... I am ... I am ..."

The list is endless. We can always find something wrong with us. The question "What is wrong with me?" is so easily answered. There is always something which we consider has held us back in life. Something we can use as a crutch, a prop, or a stick to support our perceived inadequacies.

It could be anything; as long as it is negative. Negative is powerful.

It could be your physical appearance, your background, race, religion, family history. Anything.

Years ago, a well-meaning boss told me that if I wanted to get on in this organisation I'll have to change my surname. I replied that it took me ages to learn how to spell my name; I was not going to start all over again with a new name.

I did get on in my career despite my name, or other negative things about me.

The real question in life is not "What is wrong with me?" but "What good does God see in me?"

Aha ... difficult to answer? Let not false modesty hold us back. Remember this, there are no rejects off God's production line. 

God created us all and He created us in His own image. This means, like God, we all have the ability to love, to care, to forgive, to be merciful, to be compassionate, to be kind, to be generous and to live as Jesus would have wanted us to.

It is all a matter of asking the right question: "WHAT GOOD DOES GOD SEE IN ME?"