You have a choice. You can look at life through a negative filter or a positive one.
Your filter is shaped by your life experiences, your exposure to other people’s filter, your belief system, and so much more. Your filter molds your thoughts, your emotions, and ultimately your decisions.
Over time, we develop filters that tend to be negative or positive.
A negative filter is judgmental and finds faults in people and reasons to worry in situations. Ultimately a negative filter will clog your thought process and hinder you from receiving the promises of God. It can lead to worry and unbelief.
“‘For this reason I say to you, do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?’” Matthew 6:25
Think of the air filter in the engine of a car. A few of the effects of a dirty filter are experiencing a gasoline smell, decreased horsepower, abnormal or strange sounds, and black smoke from the exhaust.
When your spiritual filter is clogged with negativity, it might be more difficult to fully engage as who God created you to be. You might have a harder time doing what God created you to be because you operate in your flesh rather than soaring on the wind of the Holy Spirit. You might more easily hear and believe the lies of the enemy.
When you operate with a negative “air” filter the breath of God has a more difficult time filling your heart, mind, and spirit, because your filter is full of unbelief, negative beliefs about yourself, self-limiting beliefs about what you are capable of.
Change you filter. There’s a better way to look at life.
“‘But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be [h]added to you.’” Matthew 6:33
A positive filter is full of faith, looks for opportunity even in difficult situations, is open to God’s promises, peace, and hope. A person operating with a clean/positive filter is nonjudgemental, loving, and forgiving.
Do you need to change your filter? Seek first Christ and His kingdom. Allow Him to be Lord of your life. Set you mind on positive things. You can train your brain and switch your filter from negative to positive.
“Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.” Philippians 4:8
Worship is a powerful way to change your filter.
- Celebrate who God created you to be and what He created you to do.
- Worship the One who created you with all that you need to live this life here on earth.
- Praise the Lord for His victory over sin, death and the power of the devil through Christ’s death and resurrection.
God is right there with you—as your spiritual auto mechanic—willing and able to assist you in changing your filter.
That’s good news!