Check Your Attitude - Genesis 40-41 Series

We know this is setting the stage, of course, for eleven men and their dad in the land of Israel who won't have enough food and they will have to go and find some. I won't spoil the story too much because I want you to come back next week and hear more of what God's going to do in that story.

But I do want you to have another attitude check with me for a moment. This time I don't want you to use your thumbs to demonstrate your response to your attitude to the things I'm going to mention. I want you to use your heart. Because your heart can help you to do this attitude check that is so important, I believe, for any of us.

So when I say words like ‘disappointment’ or ‘hardship’ or ‘annoying person’ or any of those things, if your attitude drags you down, maybe you need to focus on having an attitude towards some words like God. What is your attitude toward God? Do you believe God is real? Because when you believe that God is real then it’s is so much bigger. You recognize that God and all of his wisdom, all of His infinite sovereignty is directing the course of things in life and you go whoa. You say, “I wonder what God is doing here? I wonder what He’s doing in this situation?” We need to have an attitude, that belief that drives the arrow forward. Let our emotions follow along, but let's go forward with this belief that God is real and powerful.

What's your attitude toward Jesus Christ? Do you believe that Jesus Christ is who He said He was? He said – I am the way the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. There's only one worldview that's right, He's saying. That biblical worldview is the only one that's right. And He says that is Jesus Christ. You see, I think if we have an attitude toward Christ that He really is the Son of God, who He said He was, then we would be like the disciples. When Jesus is going along the Sea of Galilee, He says, “Follow me,” and they say, “Okay,” and they leave their nets and follow Jesus. I think every time you come and follow Jesus, you have to leave something behind. It's just what happens. That's the nature of discipleship. We say, “Okay, I'm going to let this thing go, this thing I thought was important, this thing I thought was a dream in my life, this thing I thought was valuable. I'm going to let that go. And I'm going to follow you because I know that Jesus Christ is who He said He was. My attitude toward Jesus Christ is right there. He's driving me.”

What is your attitude toward the Bible? Do you really believe that the Bible is the word of God? Because if you do believe that, then you're going to do what Psalm 1 says that he who delights in the law of the Lord meditates on it day and night. I'm so hungry for God's word I want to get into it. What does He have to say for me today? Because God speaks to us through the Bible, through His word. Wow. If we have the attitudes toward God and Jesus and the Bible, it opens the door to all these other things, these attitudes that we have inside of this biblical worldview. We all need that as we go forward.