Attitude Adjustment

We Need You Lord – Jonathan Butler – https://youtu.be/9_muKAnm4gk

“Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.” Psalms‬ ‭51:10‬ ‭KJV‬‬

I really don’t like dealing with people. I’m cranky. I truly need an attitude adjustment. Actually, I need a heart adjustment.

I think people assume I’m nice and have all these “happy” thoughts. They suppose I’m a push over or too nice. They believe they can say anything to me without retaliation. No one understands what verbally goes through my mind as a comeback to rudeness – which if flowed from my mouth would tarnish my witness.

After I assessed on this particular day- I have not been patient. I have not been tolerant. I’ve been judgmental. I’ve avoided or wanted to avoid folk. I did a task for someone begrudgingly. At the end of the day when I finally sat down I initially blamed the other folk for these feelings. I blamed their actions toward me.

See, this thinking is why I vitality need to maintain my relationship with God. Thank God I can go to Him to get an attitude and heart adjustment! I’m having a Psalm 51 moment like David with God.

“Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions: and my sin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have I sinned, and done this evil in thy sight: that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou judgest. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.” Psalms‬ ‭51:1-12‬ ‭KJV‬‬

Then…

“Then will I teach transgressors thy ways; and sinners shall be converted unto thee.” Psalms‬ ‭51:13‬ ‭KJV‬‬

Later in the Psalm it states:

“The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.” Psalms‬ ‭51:17‬ ‭KJV‬‬

God does not despise when we come to Him and acknowledge our sin with a true desire to change.

We need God and His two-edged Word to be aware of our shortcomings and to assist us in the change needed to be more like Him.