Relationships are everything~but they are so much work! If you have good relations with others, you can weather any trial that comes. If relationships are strained, even the slightest problem can seem overwhelming. We truly identify ourselves by our relationships. We must never forget the most important relationship we have is with God. As a Christian~having a good relationship with Him is what makes this life worth living!
No one knows that to be true more than Satan. He will do whatever he can to destroy relationships. One of his tricks is to talk us into having the wrong attitudes about people. To believe things that are not true. "What we believe determines our outcome."- Pastor Bill Marshall
Sometimes God has to remind me~"Carrie~You don't get everything that you want." Ok~I am humbled! It's not all about me or what I want.
God created us to be with Him and love Him. Instead, from the very beginning, mankind has chosen wickedness over godliness. Again and again His creation shows the Lord that we do not want to do things His way, but want our own way.
God doesn't get what He wants most often. The majority of humans either know nothing of God, or they hate Him telling them what to do or how to live their lives.
Most of the time~ He is misquoted, misunderstood, and misrepresented. He has more enemies than I will ever have, yet, though He could change everything in a moment to get His way~ He does not.
God orders the sun to rise each morning. He keeps giving us air to breathe and food to eat. He showers us with undeserved blessings, even when those of us who claim Him as a Father hardly give Him the attention and love He deserves.
God doesn't get what He wants most often. The majority of humans either know nothing of God, or they hate Him telling them what to do or how to live their lives.
Most of the time~ He is misquoted, misunderstood, and misrepresented. He has more enemies than I will ever have, yet, though He could change everything in a moment to get His way~ He does not.
God orders the sun to rise each morning. He keeps giving us air to breathe and food to eat. He showers us with undeserved blessings, even when those of us who claim Him as a Father hardly give Him the attention and love He deserves.
This realization put my trial in a new light. Should I complain that one area in my life is not right, when God is so gracious, though many things are not right in His world? The same idea is so relevant in our relationships.
You see, the lie that the Devil has us believing is that we deserve better. When someone mistreats you and that thought comes to your mind, it is not from the Lord! Satan is whispering in your ear. Jesus never told us to stand up and make others respect us. He told us to take evil and to turn the other cheek .
Matthew 5:39
39But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
We are very concerned about being treated properly by our husbands, our children, our church family, and strangers on the road and at the store.
Ladies, we need to lower the bar of expectation when it comes to how we expect the world to treat us. I see no where in the Gospels that Jesus demanded respect. In fact, He told people on several occasions not to mention Who He was. He did not want to raise Himself up but to be a servant. Always He went about doing good .
Acts 10:38
38How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghost and with power: who went about doing good, and healing all that were oppressed of the devil; for God was with him.
When we feel like our feelings have been trampled on and we feel taken for granted it is time to quote this verse.
When we feel like our feelings have been trampled on and we feel taken for granted it is time to quote this verse.
1 Corinthians 6:7
7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?
It will serve us best to think about what Christ took for us on the cross and how He takes unjust treatment from the hands of sinful men! He will not have to tolerate unfair treatment forever. Someday and forever He will rule and reign in a sinless world. The same is true for us. If we humble ourselves, God will exalt us.
It will serve us best to think about what Christ took for us on the cross and how He takes unjust treatment from the hands of sinful men! He will not have to tolerate unfair treatment forever. Someday and forever He will rule and reign in a sinless world. The same is true for us. If we humble ourselves, God will exalt us.
1 Peter 5:6
6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:
It will behoove us to get a new perspective~never demanding, always serving, and always loving!
Until Next Time~
It will behoove us to get a new perspective~never demanding, always serving, and always loving!
Until Next Time~
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