You can tell a lot about your own disposition by the way you view life. You may think that most days just aren’t worth waking up to carry on the duties of the day. That there are far more things going wrong in your life, than things that are going good in your life. In fact, you view your life as a glass that is half empty.
Viewing life through dark colored glasses, gives you the impression that more things are going wrong in your life than are going right. Thus, you see the glass as half empty.
With a view of a downward spiral of events in your life, your personality is impacted, also. Negativity, yields a mood of discouragement. Just as one negative thought after another seems to make the next event go in a negative direction. Negativity makes one event after another drag you deeper and deeper into discouragement. C. S. Lewis says this about your attitude of discouragement: “If Satan’s arsenal of weapons were restricted to a single one, it would be discouragement.” Think about the time(s) in your life when you were discouraged. At those times, you seemed as though life had hit rock bottom. And the truth be told, discouragement occurs way too often in your life.
That is the reason for fellowship in the local church. Fellow Christian are there to lift your spirits and help you carry your load. Scripture commands believers to follow exactly in that kind of behavior: “Therefore encourage one another and build up one another just as you also are doing” (1 Thess. 5:11).
If your glass is half empty, let other Christian friends attend to your soul and life your spirits. If your glass is half full, spread some joy around and lift someone else’s spirits. In both cases your end result is a glass that is completely full. Let’s start filling some glasses to the brim!
