The expression, “Attitude determines altitude” is used a lot in education. It is also true in many other ways. For instance, you might be the most successful businessman on planet earth, or you might be a poor, homeless down-and-outer, but no matter who you are, your attitude will determine at what heights you will spend eternity. Your attitude toward the Lord Jesus will determine whether you will make it into heaven’s glorious heights or whether you will spend eternity in the depths of hell. In both cases, attitude determines altitude, and there is no escaping it.
Believe that the Lord Jesus Christ is the eternal Son of God who became a man, went to the cross, gave His life a ransom for you, and then arose from the grave in the power of an endless life, and you will be saved.
Believe something short of this—that He was only a teacher, merely a prophet, or that He didn’t rise from the grave-and you will never make it into heaven.
Salvation is a priceless gift from God. It is offered free to all for the very good reasons that we all desperately need it and we have no chance of ever earning it. Since “all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God,” the man who seems upright in this world needs salvation as much as someone who is vile and contemptible. Only when you have the attitude of those who know they deserve nothing but wrath at God’s hands, and then come to the Savior, will you ever receive the gift of eternal life.
Someone might have a bright, cheerful attitude even in difficult situations. Someone else might have the type of attitude where they tackle every task with enthusiasm and gusto. These attitudes, though praiseworthy as far as they go, would not obtain for them eternal life. The immense gift of eternal life is only given to those who believe with all their hearts on the Lord Jesus Christ as the Son of God. As sinners, we need the Savior. The last thing anyone needs is to deceive themselves into thinking that they might do something to earn God’s grace. Good works will never cancel out the sins we have done in our lives. However, the blood shed on Calvary’s cross can remove those sins once and forever the moment we believe on the Lord Jesus. “The blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin” (1 John 1:77But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7)).
Attitude determines altitude. You need an attitude of faith in the Savior of sinners if you are ever going to make it into heaven. He is the only Savior of sinners this world will ever know. “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:3131And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house. (Acts 16:31)). Won’t you believe on Him that heaven might be your eternal home?