What does a bad attitude have in common with rotten fish?

It stinks!

I am learning daily how important it is for me to work on myself. I refuse to point the finger at anyone else. I am not going to tell everyone why they should change and be better, when I have to take beam out of my own eye. I have finally come to the point where I am not willing to allow myself any opportunity to have a funky, stinky, mean, bad, or disgraceful attitude.

I used to pride myself on learning not to be the moody teenager of my youth. How even now I thought I was so great because I wouldn't be angry or hold a grudge for over a week. Then for more than a few days. And then I got really saved and I was never angry more than a day!!! But as I drew closer and closer to God, I was literally glowing in Holiness like Moses that my face shown...because I was able to get over a disturbing situation in at least an hour. I was too too saved.

Yet, what I have learned is that emotions are not bad. Father God gave them because they are just another set of indicators that show us what is going on in natural or everyday things. It only becomes a problem when we let our actions dictate what we do based on what someone else said or did to us. There in which was the challenge for me.

I had to refuse to be like Sister Jezzy in the novel...did you buy it yet?...yes shameless plugger...in the sense that I would wild out, act crazy, and then assume that I can just repent later and all would be well.

Not that you can't repent when you have misbehaved, but wouldn't it be so much better if you could train...TRAIN..yes I said it...yourself to do what is right even in the midst of the worst situation? It is possible. The more and more that I do it I notice it gets easier each time. I become aware of the signals or the snares of the enemy trying to distract me through someone else..something else...

I am getting better and better..there were some times of slip ups..but i get better and better...