Remember, the nursery rhyme about the little red train going up the hill. The engine just kept saying, “I think I can! I think I can!” Finally, the little red train makes it up the hill and is on its way. This stresses the importance to little childhood minds of them thinking positively.
Somewhere after childhood and before adulthood, that lesson of keeping a positive outlook on life fell to the wayside. You may have even developed the mental mind set of focusing on the negative. Knowing your mental perspective is the beginning of a correct attitude. William James is correct when he said, “The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” Now, that is a mouth full of wisdom! All you have to do, to change the life that you have, is to change the way you think about it. In fact, the way you think will dictate the way you live.
The Holy Bible discusses how you can live to the fullest on earth and get to heaven; this attitude is discussed in Philippians 3:15, “Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, have this attitude; and if in anything you have a different attitude, God will reveal that also to you.” God is telling you to “have this attitude.” What attitude? It is described in the verse before this one, “I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” (verse 14). You are to “press on” for “the prize.” That prize is the rewards you will receive in heaven. Thus, you are to daily live your life in order to have more heavenly rewards.
Your attitude dictates the quality of your earthly life. Keeping a positive outlook is important, but of far more importance is maintaining each day as a means of getting more eternal rewards. That kind of living keeps you positively focused and heavenly minded!
