3 Ways to Be a Blessing // Are You a Blessing or a Burden, Part 3

<p>There are three things about us which in a very practical way will determine whether we are more of an asset or a liability, more of a blessing than a burden. What are they? Our attitude, our anger and our anticipation for tomorrow.</p> <p> </p> <h4><span style= "color: #ff9900;"><strong>Attitude</strong></span></h4> <p>Can I ask you, do you enjoy being around people who are grumpy and upset all the time? Do you enjoy being part of a team where everyone’s downcast, when no one is at all positive about anything going on in their lives? None of us do, do we? It’s horrible when that happens.</p> <p>I mean I remember being part of a sporting team once as a young man and we didn’t win a single game in the season. It got to the point where we’d go out onto the field believing, just knowing that we were going to lose and time and time again we would fulfil our expectation. No, it wasn’t a lot of fun at all.</p> <p>Some people are a blessing and others are more of a burden. Some people are assets and others are more of a liability. Some people are problem solvers and others, well they’re just part of the problem and if you and I want to live the sort of life that’s this amazing life, the life that God’s planned for us, we need to be on the plus side of that equation not on the minus side. Would you agree?</p> <p>So let me ask you, are you a glass half full kind of person or do you have a glass half empty perspective on life? Because perspective or the word that most people use, our attitude, has a lot to do with the sort of life we’re going to live. I love what it says in the Old Testament Book of Proverbs chapter 17, verse 22. It says:</p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;"><em>A cheerful heart is good medicine but a down cast spirit dries up the bones.</em></p> <p>I like being around cheerful people. Cheerful people have a sense of contentment and joy, they’re not always looking for the problems that might be just around the next corner. Cheerful people are the people who have their faith and their trust in the Lord Jes