Who you are. What you do. How you go about Be-ing and Do-ing starts and ends here – the attitude of your heart. Do you check your heart? If you take your blood pressure, or have it taken regularly, do you check your heart’s attitude as well? Starting with the bottom line… the attitude of the heart demonstrates your Who, What, How.
Simple? I don’t think so. In the first place we typically don’t realize or take the time to ‘judge’ ourselves. Part of our dilemma is our definition of judging. This is not necessarily punitive. Judging is not only discovering all you did ‘wrong’ but being involved in becoming your best you and understanding what affects these behaviors. It is also becoming submitted to the leading of the Holy Spirit and allowing the Lord to help you become you. Submitted? Allow? Absolutely. Until and unless you involve the One who is more concerned about and for you than even you… you don’t grow into all that’s been prepared for you.
Scripture tells us to judge ourselves – “For if we would judge ourselves, we would not be judged.” (1Corinthians 11:31) But look at v 32
“But when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, that we
may not be condemned with the world.”
To me, this is a powerful incentive to be aware of me – my words and actions – so that I do examine who I am and what I do. ‘Examine’ allows me to enhance the positive and eliminate the negative. This is the purpose of our judging – positive growth – and the method to attain this – examine.
Your heart attitude is something that is all you – your decision, your choices, yours. You can’t blame others because ultimately it is always your choice, your decision about you. Discovering, examining your heart attitude is not always comfortable but I also suspect we really aren’t all that surprised at what we do and how we do it resulted in the reaction(s) it did. The question is if this is what we truly want. If so – excellent. If not – be honest with yourself and determine if you want change. Change, like attitude, is always in our hands… at least how we respond to it.
