This week I’m going to borrow a devotional from one of my daily readings.

“Dr. Victor Frankl, the bold, courageous Jew who became a prisoner during the Holocaust, endured years of indignity and humiliation by the Nazis before he was finally liberated.

At the beginning of his ordeal, he was marched into a Gestapo courtroom, His captors had taken away his home & family, his cherished freedom, his possessions, even his watch and wedding ring.

They had shaved his head and stripped his clothing off his body. There he stood before the German high command, under the glaring lights being interrogated and falsely accused. He was destitute, a helpless pawn in the hands of brutal, prejudiced, sadistic men. He had nothing. NO, that isn’t true, He suddenly realized there was one thing no one could ever take from him-just one. Do you know what it was?

Dr. Frankl realized he still had the power to choose his own attitude. No matter what anyone would ever do to him or regardless of what the future held for him, the attitude choice was his to make. Bitterness or forgiveness, To give up or to go on. Hatred or hope. Determination to endure or the paralysis of self-pity.

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitude toward life, or anything else for that matter. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it.

The single most significant decision we can make on a day-to-day basis is our choice of attitude. It is more important than the past, education, bankroll, successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of us or say about us, our circumstances or our position. Attitude is what keeps us going or cripples our progress. It alone can fuel our fire or assault our hope. When our attitudes are right, there is no barrier too high, no valley too deep, no dream to extreme or challenge to great.

Yet we must admit that we spend more of our time concentrating and fretting over the things that can’t be changed than we do giving attention to the one that remains, our choice of attitude.

Stop and think about some of the things that suck up our attention and energy, all of them inescapable (and occasionally demoralizing).”

So keeping Dr. Frankl in mind. What do we use our time doing? Suffering from an attitude of worry, doubt, distrust, criticism, and any other issues we have no control over? I hope not.

As Christians we need to focus our Life on Christ and the comfort He gives through our Faith and Trust in Him. Let’s make sure our attitude and behavior towards others is based on our Christian Faith and principles.

If there is any doubt or distrust in our life then Prayer is the answer and our Faith should be something we depend on everyday.

If our attitude is one of faith and trust then the other useless attitudes will have no room in our lives.

Loving each other and Christ, with the same devotion as Paul, will ensure our daily attitudes are constructive not destructive.

God’s richest blessing on each of you.