I’m just going to ask you
right off the bat. How many of you are carrying a grudge, anger or angst
against someone? You may not even realize it. Sometimes incidents occur in our
lives that we may brush off at the time, but they linger in the back of our
minds and at that moment that we least expect these thoughts come back to us
out of what appears to be nowhere and we ask ourselves where did that come
from.
These feelings or thoughts
may cause us to lash out at someone for no reason that’s apparent to us or the
person to whom we lash out.
Have any of you had
something said to or about you or done to you that has caused you so much pain
that you have not, or feel like you cannot forgive the offender?
Perhaps you’re the offender.
Have you said something to or about someone that you should not have said or
done?
Have your thoughts about
yourself been damaging? Have you caused physical damage to yourself?
Are you carrying feelings of guilt and
unforgiveness? Oftentimes when we are angry with someone they may not even know
it. As a matter of fact they may not even know that they have offended you.
Don’t carry anger or unforgiveness in your heart. It only hurts you.
Think about a time that you may have been angry
with someone, or had trouble forgiving them. This may even be that time. When
you are angry you expend time and energy on thoughts and or behaviors that are
unproductive. The enemy may even try to convince you of things that are not
true. Have you ever caught the eye of someone that you may not have a good
relationship with only to see them and another person looking at you? Did the
enemy try to convince you that they were talking about you? Maybe they were and
maybe they weren’t. He will use anything to distract you.
When we are distracted we lose focus, when we
lose focus we get off track, when we get off track the enemy has us right where
he wants us. We’ve taken our eyes off of Jesus as Peter did and we allow what’s
going on around us to cause us to sink, to move us away from our goal.
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