Sinful Nature days(who peed in your Cornflakes?)

Did you ever wake up on the wrong side of the bed just before the world peed in your cornflakes?
Have the kinda day where one thing after another goes wrong? Maybe nothing even goes wrong, but everything goes right for everyone around you?
Or maybe just the kind of day where you couldn't even explain to someone why you are so cranky because honestly, you don't even know yourself.
On those days, you'd feel like an optomist to even be able to say that the glass is half empty, because as far as you can tell, someone came along and drank your water and smashed the metaphorical glass on the floor.
You woke up, and probably should have just rolled over and gone back to sleep, because by facing the world on this day, you are doing nobody any favors.
You are not a pleasure to be around, and clearly, as anyone could tell, you are just friggin' cranky.
On days like these, I complain, I growl, I grumble. I become the victim, like everyone and everything(God not excluded) is out to get me.
I have too much to do, and too little time to do it, a stupid driver just had to cut me off only to drive 40 in front of me, the lineup at the grocery store takes forever, and to make matters worse, my boss threatened my job yet again.
Sinful nature days, that is what I call them. When, for some reason, different for everyone and every situation, we forget who we are, and what we represent, and who is working in us, and we freak. And though we don't recall making a choice, we sure do. We decide that despite the nagging of the Holy Spirit telling us to love, we will hate. Despite the calling of the cross to deny ourself, we indulge ourselves in self-pity. And despite the fact that the hugest favor ever known to man was given to us freely through the sacrifice of Christ, we shut him out.
Complain, complain, complain...justify our acts...complain some more.
How do we combat these sinful nature days? Cause I know, that once you get caught up in a bad attitude, it is a trap that seems unescapable.

If you are having one of those days, or even if your not today, but know some day you will, here are some scriptures that may help fight the urge to indulge in the sinful nature and help you to live by the Spirit.

Phil 2:3-11

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility considers others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God, Did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearence of a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death-even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of the Father.

Phil 2:14-16
Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without finding fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life-in order that I may boast on the day of Christ that I did not run or labor for nothing.

Phil 4:12-13
I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

Gal 5:16-26
So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
The acts of the sinful nature are obvious:sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft;hatred, discord, jelousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkeness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with it's passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

2 Cor 4:16-18
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Rom 8:5-8
Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires:but those that live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind of the sinful man is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful mind is hostile to God. It does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. Those controlled by the sinful nature cannot please God.


So, on those days where we are angry for no reason, or even if we have a reason. And when we feel like lashing out at people, sinful nature days, lets remember who we are and what Christ accomplished for us on the cross. Attitude is everything, and a bad attitude will destroy us as servants. Listen to the Spirit.
And yes, you will screw up, I do all the time. I freak out for no reason and my attitude turns to crap. Like one second Im right on fire for Jesus, and the next second Im wallowing in self-pity! I call that manic spirituality. Good thing for us Christ chose to die. And when he died, he took our sins. Not just the ones before we were saved, but every sin, ever. And remember, Jesus was here, he knows what it is like to be tempted in everyway, just like us. So go to him, pray to him, and ask him for help when you need it. And trust that he'll forgive your bad attitude and other acts of the sinful nature.

Heb 12:1-3
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perserverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfector of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning it's shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that u will not grow weary and lose heart.