\\What's Your Attitude Toward God?\\ - your .1
||What counts is His attitude toward me. || - my .26
{{_Jesus loves you. }} - your .27
Thanks, but I was not expressing doubt about His love toward me.
I was rather expressing doubt on the usefulness of measuring and attempting to improve our attitude toward God.
There are only two quite limited instructions about self examination in the New Testament.
But much instruction about keeping our eyes on Jesus.
Phi. 4:8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
The assurance of God's loving attitude toward the true believer is conveyed in the persistent faith in two impossible things: that one is counted as a child of God despite all one's defects, and that a man rose from the dead.
Rom. 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
Rom. 10:9-10 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
If this assurance is present and focus is kept on the Lord, one's attitude will follow.
If this assurance is not present, improvement of attitude may well lead to a false sense of security.
