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Positive Thinking – Is it Biblical?

We often hear people say “you have to have positive thoughts” when referring to a practice of achieving goals that is believed to have power in it to improve and change one’s life to a successful one. The positive thinking is a mental attitude that goes into one’s mind in order to produce what it is expected or hoped for, such as happiness, wealth or any kind of expectation of success.

It sounds good and better than negative thinking, isn’t it? Optimism is better than pessimism. Many of them including Christians have practiced positive thinking or self actualization in anticipating favorable results of what they would like to achieve by connecting it as their faith in God.

I would like to remind Christians People that positive thinking methodology is not always true, and sometimes is baseless of God’s teaching about what we call it FAITH. Someone has faith always has positive thought in mind, whereas someone has positive thinking is not always considered he or she has faith in God. In Rome 10:17 “So then faith [comes] by hearing, and hearing by the word of God”. Therefore, if those who have not had understanding correctly of will of God and practicing positive thinking or any method of mental building, shall be considered as a Me centered practice and not God centered practice, and this kind of people actually are not devoted to God but use God to fulfill their dreams.

Let us understand that our God is almighty and sovereign God shall not be dictated in our prayers, it does not matter how good our prayer is, our God will only answer to our prayers in accordance with His will and plan. Positive thinking will not constitute faith in God, but Faith that comes by hearing by word of God is to constitute true positive thinking and lead us to obey and be thankful to God’s decision whether we like it or not, we must totally surrender to His will and plan in order to receive the best for our lives, now and forever.

Proverb 3:5 “Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding”

God bless you.

Written by Rusmin Lesmana

Keshin Kaizen Ministry