Even if God is only a relationship in our head.
If its done properly positive self talk can be very beneficial.
Giving thanks to God for the good things in life is having an attitude of gratitude.
We need to be thankful for what we have so we can get more. Thanks and appreciation
can clear our head and help us focus on new goals.
I've been through it all, I have worked with Christians and argued with them that it was me that was doing
all the work not God and that I had nothing to be thankful or greatful for.
But I came to find out there is more comfort for me in dealing with god than going it all alone
even if my life is eating a shxt sandwich which I am mad at God for putting on my plate,
that sandwich goes down better with thanks and grattitude from me to God.
Thats a living life skill I learned the hard way, and I know lots and lots of very successfull and not successful
people that talk to God and give thanks.
I work in a jail and I see people go crazy and loose it often.
It seems to me that most of them did not have a relationship with God
while they are loosing it and most of them probably were not walking with God
when they got arrested.
So based on what I see regularlly and often, I think a relationship with God, the God of the bible
is a very beneficial life tool.
God is a very complex and complicated entity and effects all aspects of life.
Where I work I see it time and time again selfish people who do not have a relationship with God
make other selfish people.
Their offsprings are incorrigable, When you have parents that dont know God, that live for their own selfish
pleasures, drugs, sex, bling bling, they leave their children to sell drugs, guns, steal cars, burglarize homes,
have gun battles in the streets.
All because they dont have a relationship with God.
If the parents had a relationship with God they would have a family and live orderly lives.
If they had a relationship with God they would not have children out of wedlock.
Some people say God is Good orderly direction.
People that dont have God dont have good orderly direction.
Then people that are willing to have God ,have order, have to work and pay for all the kaos.
I dont think its your garden variety atheist who is causing these problems.
I think its people who believe in God but dont have a relationship with God.
But I'm pretty sure 95% of the people I see in jail dont have a relationship with God.
But they believe in God.
With all the people I see workiing in a jail, I doubt 2% are atheist.
When you talk to people face to face in person,
You cant find too many people that buy the concept there is no God.
That's something you can say on a computer,
Something somebody can write books about,
But it doesnt fly talking about face to face with civilized working people.
So to me a relationship with God is Good orderly direction and in the US,
the main advocate of that is the bible and Christian religions.
Who is going to tell people to get married, have a family, dont cheat on your mate,
dont steal, dont kill, work hard, love your neighbor as yourself?
The Bible and people who have a relationship with God.
Its the fabric of a healthy society.
