Chapter 8. Your Wondrous Qualities and Assets
When you take the following
evaluation of yourself, your confidence will rise quickly as you see
that you already possess quite a powerful resume of good works,
attitudes and beliefs. You are not starting your self improvement
program from the bottom of the heap, no, to the contrary, the
following criteria will prove it to you. My premise is that the very
things God has instilled in you will be the qualities a prospective
Christian mate will look for in you! Let’s face it; Christian men
and women prize the same spiritual attributes that God does in His
children. These wondrous assets that most of you already possess,
having made it a priority to become more Christ-like, will dazzle your
admirers!
While we accept that all of us
are flawed (only the dead have no annoying habits nor do they ever get
on anyone’s nerves, unless a living person is reminiscing about
them!) your good qualities will far outweigh these flaws and make the
task of shooting down your negative attitudes easy, seeing what a
storehouse of Christ-like attributes you already have.
Your confidence will soar,
giving you the strength to overcome and remove things from the old sin
nature of the past. For instance, forgiveness will come easier and bad
habits like chronic complaining can be overcome. (God called it “murmuring
“in the Old Testament, and as you noticed, He wasn’t amused!) If
you are depressed and lonely you may have said things like, “Why do
other Christians have happy marriages and a comfortable living, but
not me? (This may be a perception and might not be factual; we don’t
really know what goes on behind closed doors.) But even if true, we
should not give in to envy and jealousy, which lead to murmuring).
Actually, complaining is an affirmation that you speak upon yourself,
and you accept this lower status for yourself as you speak it into
existence by your very words. Remember, what you speak, your mind
accepts as fact and acts upon it. Complaining becomes a vicious
circle, canceling out
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