Be GLEEful

Today’s blog post is contributed by David Trotta:

Webster’s dictionary defines gleeful as “exuberantly or triumphantly joyful.”

How gleeful are you on a day-to-day basis?

Many Christ followers struggle to have a joyful mindset.  Instead, we walk around with a woe-is-me mentality filled with gloom and discouragement.

I get it.  Life can throw a lot of curve balls that knock us off our game, but we always have a choice to look at life through God’s lense and not the lense of our circumstances.

This past Sunday, my pastor laid out some biblical truths to help us repent of our negative mentality and begin to think like the children of God we are.

I took the liberty of turning those truths into a GLEEful acronym.

G – Get rid of the old belief system!  Romans 12:2 says “And do not be conformed to this world [any longer with its superficial values and customs], but be transformed by the renewing of your mind [focusing on godly values and ethical attitudes], so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.”

L – Let go of the past!  Philippians 3:13-14 says “Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.”

E – Enjoy the present!  Psalm 118:24 says “This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.”

E – Expect the best in everything!  Romans 8:28 says “And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, or those who are called according to his purpose.”

Will you commit to applying the above truths to your life so you can enjoy a GLEEful mentality?