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ATTITUDES
Our attitude or feeling concerning many matters
is reflected in our speech, action, appearance, etc. This is especially
true regarding our service to the Lord and his church. People are
often negligent in many areas and offer excuses for their failures,
but their failures are the result of a poor attitude on their part.
One can tell what a person really thinks about the church by his
speech and action.
There was a man who came to a watchmaker with two
hands of a clock, saying, “I want you to fix these hands.
They haven’t kept time correctly for the last six months or
more.”
“Where is the clock?” asked the watchmaker.
“Why I left it at home,” was the answer. “But
I must have the clock,” insisted the watchmaker. “Why,
I tell you, there is nothing wrong with the clock except the hands,”
the man replied.
As we read this story we think “What a foolish
man that was.” He did not realize that when the hands of a
clock don’t work, the trouble is not in the hands but in the
heart of the clock. And yet we sometimes make the same mistake in
diagnosing our own spiritual problems.
When we fail to attend church regularly, the problem
is not in our feet or our automobile, but in our hearts. When we
fail to give as we should, our hands are not at fault, but our hearts.
When we do things which we should not do, we cannot blame our tongue,
for “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.”
The word of God is a precise instrument for making
attitude adjustments. Is your heart in tune with God’s word?
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