I find myself using a question with my boys and myself lately. I ask them, "Are you Adding or Subtracting from a person? To add to some one never puts them down but lifts them up. Adding always produces a positive re-enforcement to their spiritual wealth. If you add to your wife then you will reap the benefits and rewards because it is in her to give back when adoration is shown. If you are adding to your children, they will begin to grow strong in the Lord and will add to yours in later years. To be an addition to someone's life means to pour yourself into them! You give them a piece (identity) of you that lifts them up, even if it is in their absence.
To Subtract! If we subtract we take away from our loved ones lives. We create deficits (or holes) in them. We take from their spiritual bank and create a negative balance. They will either stop allowing your negative campaign to steal their joy or take you to the cleaners in the court of true justice. Subtractions in the absence of a person or persons tend to always get the attention of those who you rob. People seem to be attracted to the negative before the positive. A negative smear against someone will leave a deficit to all of those affected. Most people will begin to avoid you all together. Avoiding you will be the deficit that they leave you by bankrupting your life. On a personal note: I have recently heard, watched and spoken to others about the current talk radio and television news networks about the polarization of our country. I am very disturbed by the finger pointing and negative slander that they preach to millions of people every day. I think that this is a horrible injustice for anyone to do. I don't care what side you are on it is still evasive and perverted maneuvering to say that We must think as they this or we are wrong. They are trying to persuade us to like their brand of ideas when they are as dark in their hearts as well. It is all subtracting from one man and adding it to their own base, OR SO THEY THINK.
A Warning to all husbands!
In closing, here is a great real life event that I thought would fit with this. I was working at a friends house a couple of weeks ago with a few friends. One of them said the comment about his wife (in her absence) "Man, I can't get my wife to watch an Action Movie. She always wants to lay around and watch chick flicks!" I thought quickly and said "Okay (friend) you can look at it like that or like this"! "You let her watch her chick flicks and you will see plenty of action later and a chance to be the lead man"! Now that's the power of Possitive Thinking.

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