“Think on these things…and the God of peace shall be with you.” Php 4:8-9One author writes: “Columbia researcher Sheena Iyengar has found that the average person makes about seventy conscious decisions daily. That’s 25,550 decisions a year. Over seventy years, that’s 1,788,500 decisions. Albert Camus said, ‘Life is a sum of all your choices.’ You …
“Think on these things…and the God of peace shall be with you.” Php 4:8-9
One author writes: “Columbia researcher Sheena Iyengar has found that the average person makes about seventy conscious decisions daily. That’s 25,550 decisions a year. Over seventy years, that’s 1,788,500 decisions. Albert Camus said, ‘Life is a sum of all your choices.’ You put all those 1,788,500 choices together, that’s who you are. Victor Frankl was a brilliant doctor whom the Nazis imprisoned in a concentration camp. They took away his livelihood, confiscated his possessions, mocked his dignity, and killed his family. They locked him in a cell with no way out…But he found a door that his guards did not know about: ‘Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.’ He found that when his circumstances had closed every outer door to him, they revealed to him the doors that matter far more—the doors through which a soul can leave fear and courage, leave hatred and forgiveness, leave ignorance and learn. He discovered that his guards were far more imprisoned—by cruelty and ignorance and foolish obedience to barbarism—than walls and barbed wire imprisoned him. Some people learn this and become free; some never see it and live as prisoners.” The difference is in the door you choose or the attitude you choose.
That’s why Paul writes: “Whatsoever things are true…honest…just…pure…lovely…of good report…think on these things” (v. 8). Today, choose the right attitude!
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