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| God's Simple Answer to Me |
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Through a series of misunderstandings I had been hurt. You know... emotionally wounded. The "poor me's" were making an attempt to settle in my spirit. The reasoning for allowing myself the 'moment of self pity'. (just another definition for taking offense) I could hear the 'self' somewhere inside whining, "why me", "what did I do", "I tried to .....". Wow... that old self. It is always right there trying to have its way whenever the opportunity arises. How easy it would be to slip into the negative comfort of being the victim - of seeing others as attacking me. But, if I want to live as Jesus directed me to live, I cannot indulge those kinds of thoughts let alone allow the feelings to have a place in my life. My question to Him was - "Why can't I feel hurt by this?" His answer came immediately and simply. Because allowing the hurt, the offense to have a place in your heart is the basis for all of the enemies destructive work in you. It falsely gives you a 'reason' to be angry. It lies to you and twists the truth fostering hatred. It places a cloud of misunderstanding in front of your spiritual eyes and causes confusion and mental anguish. It perpetuates itself by building one hurt, one misunderstanding, one lie upon another. The enemy is very good at this - it is his way of separating, dividing and weakening God's people. Be alert - be aware - watch - Psalm 141:3 |
