Certainly my attitude lends or detracts weight of perceptive expectation regarding my circumstance.  Yes, I face tomorrow, thinking that somehow it will be better than today, not as a practice of man’s ability to effect the elements through positive mental suggestion, but as an effect of a life spent in the hope of Christ.  I do believe that tomorrow will be better than today.  I am not trying to convince myself to color rose the difficulties of life.  I truly believe that God intended me for victory and yes, belief in victory requires an attitude that esteems today’s failures as tomorrow successive victories.

If my positive mental attitude depended on my own ability to convince myself that my outlook will make all occurrences, however poor, appeasing, then I would have been defeated the first time I had a continuous string of challenges beyond my reckoning.  I am positive that the Lord’s promises are true.  I am thoroughly convinced, through experience, that He will never give me more than I can handle and that all things are used for the good of His Kingdom because I truly love Him and obey His commands.  My positive attitude is constructed on experience not on a humanistic dedication to controlling the elements, powers, influences and “forces” of my sphere.  My dependence on positivity is based upon the Lord’s ability to provide, protect, construct, heal, deal and deliver, not on my own limited abilities.

Yes, tomorrow will be better.  I have faith in that belief, because that is the hope He gives to each of us.  I am intended for victory, in this life, not man’s defined victory associated with conquest, riches, authority or great realization of romantic escapade.  My victory is in Christ Jesus and therefore eternal.  I believe that this world, this life and the death that naturally follows has been overcome by Christ’s death upon the Cross and His resurrection.  Those laws no longer have hold over them that believe.  We may now depend entirely, hopefully and positively upon His promises of the future to come.  This world will be judged, we shall not, for His righteous judgment is intended for them who refuse to believe.  I pray that He opens their eyes and subsequently they are given the grace of eternal life in peace.  I have no control over their positive view and victory in the truth of Christ but prayer and a kind, gospel word.

I can offer a smile and a positive judgment that a good attitude is somehow better than a negative one.  Yes, that is truth.  If a person remains negative, I will concede it is often difficult to see the light.  But I didn’t see the light because I willed myself to positive understanding, I was allowed to see the light of the world and then understood the grace of my position.  My hope is not in my ability to overcome the negative influences of life.  My hope is in Christ, so the victory has already been achieved.  My rest is in Christ, my safety in the shade of God’s Almighty Wings, my comfort the Holy Spirit of God who lives with me throughout.  I am positive I love Him and that He loves me.  In Jesus name.