Adjusting our Attitude

Peter’s vision of clean and unclean animals was about far more than food. It was about God tearing down Peter’s prejudice against Gentiles. Peter had grown up believing strict boundaries defined holiness, but God showed him that His grace is bigger than man-made barriers. “What God has cleansed, no longer consider unholy” was a radical shift in thinking.
 
As believers, we can fall into the same trap of building walls — against people different from us, against those with messy pasts, or even against ourselves when guilt lingers. Adjusting our attitudes means allowing God to reshape the way we see people and situations. Grace levels the ground at the cross.
 
It’s not easy to let go of long-held assumptions. Peter struggled three times to hear God’s message. Likewise, we may resist letting go of pride, bitterness, or prejudice. But when we surrender our attitudes to God, He replaces them with compassion, humility, and openness to His work.
 
Scripture:
Philippians 2:5-8 - Have this attitude in yourselves which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although He existed in the form of God, did not regard equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, taking the form of a bond-servant, and being made in the likeness of men. Being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.
 
Application:
Identify one attitude that may be blocking you from fully loving others as Christ does. Pray specifically about releasing it today.
 
Prayer:
Lord, break down walls of pride or prejudice within me. Replace them with Your love and help me see others as You see them.