Being positive can be a great thing, like bringing the sunshine on a rainy day. Thank you, positive people! Now, wading out into a little deeper waters...
'Positive', literally, indicates position and direction, not necessarily good or bad. So, you can be positively 'positive', but you can also be positively negative - i.e. genuinely negative. We don't use the word in this literal form much, these days, but sometimes there is a dividing line between our idiomatic use, and truth. The story that jumps to my mind is when a rich (positive?), young (positive?), ruler (positive?), approached a spiritual leader for advice (positive?). So he comes to Jesus, and asks how he can peg on to all this positivity (wait for it... drum roll...) eternal life? Wow, all-good goes spiritual and just keeps on going... Here the positive meets truth. And at this juncture it looks a lot like the negative meeting truth. Jesus pinpoints that in this young man's life, God was not his first love, per the 'most important command'. (Mt 22:36-40) Jesus prescribes for this particular case, a dose of selling all he owned, giving all to the poor, and following Jesus in life. Scripture tells us that this positive man turned and 'went away sad...' (Mark 10:22)
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