Living like Christ in word and thought and deed

Have you ever been sitting by someone and they are just continually being negative or taking things and looking at them negatively? It can be frustrating and discouraging.  I can definitely be negative myself but I try to look at things positively.  No matter what happens to me I try to look at it as something God is using in my life to help me to become more like Christ.  I try to look at life with the outlook of Romans 28:9-10 and that is that God is working out everything for my good and that good is to become more like Christ. If something goes wrong I try to think well it could have gone worse or tomorrow is a new day and a new chance.  I know not everybody can think like that maybe or wants to think like that but I want to.   I think if we prayed and asked God to help us think that way and showed the people around us a little more love, grace and compassion this world would be a better place.  We need to live with each other as fellow believers in Christ, keeping each other account and being sure to speak the truth to each other in love.  I am so thankful for the people God has brought into my life to pour truth into my life and to speak truth in love in my life even if at the time it may have seemed difficult and might have been painful.   If you somebody crossing the street and a truck is going to hit them you would try to save them.  If you had to break their arm to save them it would bring them pain for a while but by doing so you would save their life.  Speaking truth into a person’s life may not “save” them physically but it will help them to be closer to God and help them to become more like Christ and might even “save” them from living in sin.  Let’s keep running the race Ohana! We have the victory in Christ!!!