God bless,
Have you ever heard that saying "the bad apple spoiled the bunch"? Well it is a saying that holds a lot of truth and it is filled with much wisdom. For those who have experienced one bad apple spoiling the remainder in the bag they bought at the market this saying does make a lot of sense! This can also be said about mindsets and about people. Have you ever been around a person that just sucked the life out of you? You came in to work or home or even church with a positive attitude and all of a sudden "Negative Nelly" and her negativity drained the joy you may have walked in with. It is very true of that expression "Misery loves company", but we have to stand our ground and tell those around us that keep dampening our mood that, negativity will only produce negativity! People who are filled with misery and a low self image and esteem will always have a negative comment to attribute even if everything else is perfect. They will always find the one thing that was a little off or a reason for why something is not good or why it will never work! They will always have something to say, add, comment or refute because of their own feelings within themselves.
Today I encourage you to put aside all of that negativity and maybe even your own mindset and ask God to fill you with His word and His thoughts that are always of good and not of evil (Jeremiah 29:11). Stop giving ear to the "Negative Nellie’s" in your life and fill yourself up with the goodness of God and let it take route in your heart because the more you fill yourself with God, the more of Him will reflect from you unto others. You will overtake negativity with positivity in those surrounding you and if you are the negative mindset, then God will make you feel so good that you won’t feel the need to look upon others short comings and spew anymore negativity!
2 Corinthians 10:5 "5 we demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ."(NIV)
