Lesson Learned.

Sometimes, I don't understand people. I don't understand how you can demand respect but not give it. I don't understand how you can forcefully argue you should be treated as an adult when you're acting like a child. I don't understand how you can expect someone to listen to your ideas and opinions when you won't give them the common courtesy by doing the same.

Okay, so I usually don't understand people.

It takes a lot sometimes to be the bigger person and take the higher road. It's not worth it to waste your breath and defend yourself when people are cemented in their false opinions about who you are or what you've done. People can call you a coward or accuse you of taking the easy way out, but that's not true. I think it is a thousand times harder to keep your mouth shut and just walk away from a situation that is spiraling out of control. From time to time, the only way to win is to lose.

Really, it is the same with my faith. The only way to 'win' everlasting life is to 'lose' who I am as a flesh and blood human. I have to give up selfishness, pride, hate, greed and impatience. 'I wish you could see me now. I wish I could show you how I'm not who I was.' It has been a long, hard road and will continue to be until the day I take my last breath, but it is completely worth it.

There are greater things in store for me, whether in this life or the next, so why should I let the negative opinions and words of those who ultimately don't matter bog me down? I have my treasure stored up in Heaven, and a family and group of true friends, near and far, who are worth their weight in gold.

Sometimes, life gives us hard lessons, but the learning is a victory for sure.

Never Forget.

'I will praise the LORD , who counsels me; even at night my heart instructs me. I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.' - Psalm 16:7 & 8

 

 'I call on You, O God, for You will answer me; give ear to me and hear my prayer.' -Psalm 17:6

^'Cast your cares on the LORD and He will sustain you; He will never let the righteous fall.' -Psalm 55:22

^'Look to the LORD and His strength; seek His face always.' -Psalm 105: 4

^'What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?' -Romans 8:31

But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.' -2 Corinthians 12:9 & 10

I will remember, Lord.