Are you squirming in bed thoroughly ashamed of yourself over the way you’ve behaved today? Perhaps you’ve “gotten even” with someone, returned an insult for an insult, or spent the day planning, “If so-and-so does this to me, I’ll do this to her.” Did someone’s treatment of you determine not only your reaction but your conduct for the day?
It is understandable how this happened, but as one brother put it, “The best revenge on an enemy is not to be like him.” So, instead of letting your sleep be disturbed over the way you reacted, repent of your overreaction and rest in the assurance that you can be an overcomer tomorrow.
How? Ask the Lord to forgive today’s rash actions and as you close your eyes, fill your mind with the picture of how God wants you to act (instead of react) from now on. Let the seed of His Word stir your spirit as you hear Him say, "
Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing." (1 Peter 3:9)
To think that we can inherit a blessing from God merely by responding in the right way to people who hurt us is an incredible truth. I truly beleive and understand that this is really really hard to do. Even myself until now , still struglling to give total forgiveness to a person who really really hurts me, and almost destroy me. But our God is a faithful GOD....
Are you squirming in bed thoroughly ashamed of yourself over the way you’ve behaved today? Perhaps you’ve “gotten even” with someone, returned an insult for an insult, or spent the day planning, “If so-and-so does this to me, I’ll do this to her.” Did someone’s treatment of you determine not only your reaction but your conduct for the day?
It is understandable how this happened, but as one brother put it, “The best revenge on an enemy is not to be like him.” So, instead of letting your sleep be disturbed over the way you reacted, repent of your overreaction and rest in the assurance that you can be an overcomer tomorrow.
How? Ask the Lord to forgive today’s rash actions and as you close your eyes, fill your mind with the picture of how God wants you to act (instead of react) from now on. Let the seed of His Word stir your spirit as you hear Him say, "Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing: but contrariwise blessing; knowing that ye are thereunto called, that ye should inherit a blessing." (1 Peter 3:9)
To think that we can inherit a blessing from God merely by responding in the right way to people who hurt us is an incredible truth. I truly beleive and understand that this is really really hard to do. Even myself until now , still struglling to give total forgiveness to a person who really really hurts me, and almost destroy me. But our God is a faithful GOD....
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