Is It A Matter Of Perspective or Attitude?

Is the glass half full or have empty?  Depends on perspective or attitude!  Depends on what is in the glass!  If you’re a chocolate malt fan and just drank the first half, the glass is half empty and you have only a little bit left to enjoy.  If you doing a prep for a colonoscopy and are trying to drink that horrible stuff, the glass is still half full. 

If you are a Detroit Tiger fan, trying to get tickets to a sold-out White Sox/Tiger game and all you can get is standing room only tickets, you are elated; but would anyone ever buy a standing room only seat to a Lions game in the last ten years?

How does this relate to our recent discussions?  Well prior this, I had always thought of Paul’s command: “to stand against the wiles of the devil” and to ”stand therefore” meaning that it was referring to standing up versus falling down.  After reflecting on the church’s position relative to Satan.  We are not just “not falling”; we are not just “standing up to” Satan, we are “standing on top of” Satan.  It is not just a matter of perspective or attitude!  It is a matter of position!  We are “in reality” positioned over Satan.  We have been placed there by our relationship to Christ.  Our heavenly Father placed Satan under Christ, under His Body, our feet!  Once we know, grasp, and understand our positional place over Satan, we need to have a attitude adjustment. Its time to realize what we have been called to do!  Is it: “WOW, I never knew that! or “Wow, you mean Satan is really under my feet!” or “Wow, you mean my Father really did that for me!” or “Wow, I don’t know if I like all this responsibility!

It is probably a little bit of all!

But, the next time you feel overwhelmed, beat down, depressed, lower than dirt, read Ephesians 1:15-23

 “Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints, ¹⁶Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; ¹⁷That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him: ¹⁸The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints, ¹⁹And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power, ²⁰Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set him at his own right hand in the heavenly places, ²¹Far above all principality, and power, and might, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come: ²²And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church, ²³Which is his body, the fulness of him that filleth all in all.”

Paul prayed this for you also!  This is God’s will for you!

Is it just a matter of putting on your big boy pants?  

No! This is a spiritual warfare!  Big boy pants don't help! It is more than attitude!  It is more than perspective!  It is about knowledge! You can not win this fight without "the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him (Christ)".  Get to know your Father "and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe"

"Put on the whole armor of God!"  Stand Up!  Stand On!  Act like you believe it!