“A fool expresses all his emotions, but a wise person controls them.”(Proverbs 29:11 GW)
There's this very interesting thing about the life we all live. Irrespective of the class you may want to say you belong now, one thing is certain. You can’t control much of what happens to you in life. You can’t control who your parents are, where you were born, the kind of family you were born into and a variety of other factors that have a significant influence on your life.
But you can choose how you react to what life throws your way. You can get angry or stressed out or shrink into depression when slights come at you — or you can respond gracefully. The space between response and stimuli can still be made available for remarkable improvements. The choice is always yours. The Bible says,
“A fool expresses all his emotions, but a wise person controls them” (Proverbs 29:11 GW).
To live responsibly, we must put our minds in gear before we put our mouths in gear. We must think before we act.
When others cause pain in our lives, we often respond by trying to get even. Ironically, in our effort to “get even” with a person who has wronged us, we do get even. We sink to the other person’s level. We can chose to live on the brighter side by selecting our own response. We take total responsibility of our lives when we decide what to feel and when to feel them.
God calls us to a much greater response: forgiveness.
When you’re mistreated, the proper reaction isn’t to blow up or clam up. Both are irresponsible. Instead God calls us to respond to slights with calmness, love, and truth.
Here’s the bottom line: Trust God to settle the score. He has much better resources to do that than you do.
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