I’m a kind of person whom easily been irritated, even on some little things especially if it didn’t come out the way I want it to be. My siblings oftentimes teased me that I get that attitude from my father (sorry Dy...Love u). Like when the taxi driver didn’t listen to my instruction or if I have been on a queue for a long time and somebody cuts me in. I’m easily flared up and get mad.
But after then I realized that person has done nothing against me, maybe he just having a bad day same with me or something or someone also did irritating things to him.
Scripture says overcome evil with good. In our life when we deal with those who are negative, critical and rude, don’t let them infect you but we can infect them. Act as a thermostat and not a thermometer.
A thermostat changes the room temperature by bringing it up or down. Through God’s control and wisdom , we can also do the same in our everyday situation and to the lives of others around us.
We always meet people who never stop complaining, may it will be about their jobs, the soaring high of basic goods, economic problems, on how people treats them badly and even those problems they have nothing to do with it. Don’t join in and say “Oh you think you have it bad? Let me tell you about my problems!.
When we talk defeat, we draw in defeat. Don’t let them influence you and draw out the worst. We can make the choice and act as thermostat. Yes, we also have problems that going on, all of us do, but we have the spirit of God living inside of us. Our attitude should be” Yes, I have some problems, it is difficult but I know it will soon pass. I may be pressed on right now but I have God who will lift me up.
That’s what being a thermostat. We didn’t let them pull us down but instead pulled them up. Let us stop talking negatively, stop dragging through life with no enthusiasm, let no negative voice influence you. Choose to live life as a thermostat. When we walk into a room, change the atmosphere.
