I was trying to find something to watch on TV last night when I came across a tele-evangelist. Usually I don't watch that many programs by tele-evangelists, but this guy was saying something really interesting. I just wanted to tell you about it.
He said that we shouldn't have a negative monologue running through our heads all the time. We shouldn't be so down on ourselves. We should focus on all the good things we've done instead of the few bad things we've done.
I can't count the number of times I've done just that, focused only on the things I've done wrong. After awhile, they've become so much bigger in mind than what I've done right.
It's like when you're practicing a piece of music and you make one minor mistake. You hit one single note wrong amongst all the notes you hit right. Just because you hit one note wrong in a piece doesn't mean you're not a talented musician. It means you're learning.
You can bet that even the most influential composers, the best pianists in the world, and the most popular rock stars all have this in common. Each and every on of them, Bach, Motzart, Reliant K, Hannah Montana, every musician on the face of this planet, every one of them has hit a wrong note at some time. Every one of them messed up a song so badly that they had to start over again. I guarantee you they have. What if they had focused on that one moment? What if they had kept it in the back of their minds? "I was off key in the third verse." "My rhythm was off." "I didn't hit that chord right." Where would they be now? They wouldn't be near as good musicians.
In music, if you keep thinking about what you did wrong,if you focus on you flaws and only your flaws, you'll walk away from it. There will be nothing to keep you practicing.
The same goes for life itself. If a person only focuses on what's wrong about them, there will be nothing to keep them living life to it's fullest.
So why do some of us do this all the time. Oh, don't tell me I'm the only one who does it. Constantly telling myself I'm bad at things so that when I fail it's not so bad. Psychologists would say that the reason we fail when we think we will is because we subconsciously sabotage our success. It's called a self-fulfilling prophecy.
God wants us to know that he loves us just the way we are. We are his royal priesthood. He made us, and, in a way, being down on yourself is kind of like telling God that gravity was a stupid idea. Who are we to question how God made the world? On the same coin, who are we to question how God made us?
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