A World of Opposites

Romans 12:2 – Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will.

​Our world is full of opposites that happen at the same time:
 

• Even what’s sweet can taste bitter when you have too much of it.
• It can be 75 degrees inside during the winter and you feel cold, but it can be 75 degrees in the summer and still feel hot.
• You can feel overweight at 140 pounds, but 140 is a great number if you used to weigh 180 pounds.
• You can live inside your home, but you also live outside of the city.
• So it is with our lives - There can be something bad going on at the same time as something good.
• You can have a headache yet still enjoy your ice cream.
• And, you can feel upbeat while everything around you is pulling you down into the downbeat.

 
Even though our world tries to drag us down into the darkest pit because of all the anger that rages around us, it still boils down to our perspective.
 
Each day we have the choice to allow the world to cause us to live in the downbeat pull of negativity and never measuring up, or we can choose to take the perspective of what is good.
 
So choose and don’t conform any longer to the pattern of this world, as the Bible verse above says. Then God will show you what to do with your day, and it may just surprise you, when you find yourself more and more living on the upbeat. Society would want us to conform to its own perspective instead of seeing life in a more positive perspective. Preusscoachleader.com, in their article, “It’s a Matter of Perspective” talks about how perspective can change your life. We can fall into perspectives that keep us closed to possible opportunities or find opportunities that open a path we hadn’t thought about before.
 
Sometimes all it takes is to change your location. If you’ve lost sight of where you’re going with a project, it may help to take your laptop and move your “office” to a park bench. This may be just the change that it takes to move forward and complete the project you’re working on. But sometimes you can’t move to a new location. Try to put up some beautiful pictures around you. Then you can still gain a new perspective even though you haven’t left your office. Then when you but heads with opposites in our world, you can find focus on the positive approach instead of being sucked into the valley of conformities.

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