Day 163 – Attitude

Proverbs 21:4 A haughty look, a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked are sin.

• God’s names:
• YAHWEH/JEHOVAH – Self-existent, Eternal
• Elohiym – Supreme God
• Yeshuwa/Iesous – Jesus
• Theos – Supreme Divinity
• Soter – Savior
• Kurios – Supreme Authority
• Pater – Father

• God’s character:
• Integrity

Why do you stay away from some people and gravitate toward others? Isn’t it because of the attitude they display? You see the haughty and arrogant people in the movies you watch. You don’t root for them. You root for the person who has a humble character. When you see people with immense wealth, you look at their characteristics. What brought them to that point? Did they get their with hard work and diligence? Or did they use dishonesty to gain what they have. How do people see you?

Solomon showed that arrogance, pride, and deceit were sins against YAHWEH. People need to show a humble and contrite attitude in everything they do. Anything else, would be an abomination to YAHWEH.

When YAHWEH told Samuel to anoint the next king of Israel, He sent him to Jesse. Jesse had eight sons. Seven of them presented themselves before Samuel, but he said none of them were the one YAHWEH looked for because He looked at the heart, not the appearance.

1 Samuel 16:7 But YAHWEH said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have refused him. For YAHWEH does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but YAHWEH looks at the heart.”

Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of Elohiym are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart — these, O Elohiym, You will not despise.

When you said yes to Yeshuwa as Soter and Kurios, you did so with a contrite heart, wanting only to serve Him. Yet is that what your heart showed Him?

Many Christians sit in church, listening to the sermon, putting on smiles for those around them, serving on multiple positions in the church, attending Bible studies, and prayer events, but when they go home the only thing they can do is criticize everything the pastor said, the people who were in church, the clothes they wore, what they said, how their children acted. They are in church not to participate, though they do, but to condemn every action of the people they say they honor. The only person they honor is themselves. Listen to what they say about themselves because they will start every sentence with ‘I’.

Yeshuwa looks for the contrite person.

Luke 18:9 Also He spoke this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others: 10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘Theos, I thank You that I am not like other men — extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. 12 I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.’ 13 And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘Theos, be merciful to me a sinner!’ 14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

It is your heart Yeshuwa looks at, not what you do. When your actions line up with your heart motives in your love for Yeshuwa and others, then Yeshuwa will bless you.

1 John 2:15 Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Pater is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world — the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life — is not of the Pater but is of the world. 17 And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of Theos abides forever.

How do people see you? Do they see you as one who loves Yeshuwa with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, or as one who puts on a show because your actions don’t match the motives of your heart?

Examine yourself. Confess your sin and change your attitude to one that honors Yeshuwa. When you do, you will find Yeshuwa’s blessings in your life.

Let’s pray: Father, forgive me for acting like the world. Change the motives of my heart so they line up with the love You have for me. Help me to love as You love and not condemn. In Jesus’ name, I pray. Amen.

Copyright © 1 July 2026 by Valerie Routhieaux