Summary
Happy memories help us remember the most important things in life. Choose to remember the best things in your life and forget the rest.
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Introduction
What’s on your mind today? Is it good or bad?
Focusing on the Negative
Many of us are prone to focus on the negative. We may have had a lovely day with family or friends, but it’s the one moment that someone snapped at us that plays on our mind. Perhaps we’ve had a good day at work, but our boss criticised (constructively, we might admit) a piece of work, and that’s all we can think about. We drove safely to the supermarket earlier today, partly due to the consideration of other drivers, but all we can think about is the “idiot” who “cut us up” on the roundabout.
Paul’s Negative Circumstances
Paul certainly had a lot of negatives to focus on when he wrote the Philippians. He was in prison in Rome and left with nothing, forced to rely on the churches to help him with money and supplies.
Paul Urges His Readers to Focus on Happy Memories
But instead, Paul urges his readers to focus on the good things in life. We can choose to be happy about what we have by fixing our minds on all the things around us that are true, honourable, right, pure, lovely and admirable. We just need to find things that are excellent and which we can praise God for.
Choose to Remember the Best Things
Choose to remember the best things in your life and forget the rest. It will certainly increase your happiness!
Think It Over
Think about the following:
- Are you a glass half full person or a glass half empty one? How do you think it affects your happiness?
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This Week’s Battle Drill Devotionals
- Monday 28 August – Happiness Begins with Gratitude: What Happens When People are Delighted
- Tuesday 29 August – Happy Memories Help You Remember the Important Things in Life
- Wednesday 30 August – Happy and Contented With Life and All God Gives Us
- Thursday 31 August – Does God Want Us to be Happy?
- Friday 1 September – How Much Stuff Do You Need to be Happy?
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