Attitude

Me? Have a bad attitude? Surely not!

I'm afraid I do sometimes have a bad attitude. I wonder what the cause is? I mean, not the ultimate root cause--I know what the ultimate source of all evil was; I know that "The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" (Jeremiah 17:9).

But why do I personally sometimes have a bad attitude? Where does it come from? I think sometimes it is simply habit. I don't check my criticism, my negativism, my cynicism, my pessimism, my lack of faith, my self-defeating thoughts. They become so much a part of me that I do them without thinking and hardly even notice how distorted they are!

How unbecoming! Now if I could just do the same thing with compliments and kind words, positive thoughts, cheerfulness, optimism, faith, etc., wouldn't I be in good shape?