BBD 06.24.15 Blindsided (Classic)
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The Burning
Bush Devotional
Classic
from 1998
06.24.15
Blindsided
Today I was run over by a truck. Not really, it just felt
like it!! I thought I was looking after the interests of our church as a pastor
should. I thought that what I had wanted was what would be in the best interest
of those affected the most. It feels almost like a truck has run over you when
a Christian brother or sister does something that is most uncharacteristically
Christian and hurts you and others. It hurts even more when there is little
that you can do about it at the time, but still that human flesh wants to get
even.
My first response was that I wasn’t going to let them get
by with this, I can cause them trouble. But then that didn’t sound very
Christian either. What was it Jesus said? Where was that? Matthew 5..verse...39, “...resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee
on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.” There’s more! “And if any
man will sue thee at the law and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak
also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain.” Here’s the one that gets to me: “But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good
to them that hate you and pray for them which despitefully use you, and
persecute you.”
There is really an amazing thing about giving a situation
like mine to the Lord along with all the anger, with all the pain. The amazing
thing is you can almost feel the hurt, the pain drain away. I know that God
will now use this situation to bring about good, which maybe He is already
doing through this devotional.
Is there a situation in your life that is causing you
pain, distress, anger? Place all of that in the hands of Jesus. Allow the Lord
to take care of it for you. When you do that, you will find as I did that it
makes life much, much easier!
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