Rest and resume

I was a little overwhelmed last week. I took a couple of nights off to relax and now I feel much better. Sometimes we just need that time off to reset ourselves.

I get a daily inspirational email from an organization called "God Calling". It is supposedly inspired from the Word of God delivered via two elderly women living in England. I hesitate to accept it as that, but I know that the message is very true in many ways. I especially liked one that I recieved the other day. It is as follows:

I AM your Shield. No buffets of the world can harm you. Feel that between you and all scorn and indignity is a strong shield. Practice feeling this until nothing has the power to spoil the in­ward peace. Then indeed a marvellous victory shall be won.

You wonder sometimes why you are permitted to make mistakes in your choice when you sought so truly to do My Will in the matter.

To that l say it was no mistake.... All your lessons cannot be learned without difficulty, and this was needed to teach you a lesson. Not to him who walks on, with no obstacles in his way, but to him that overcometh is the promise given.

So to attain peace quickly in your surround­ings, as well as in your hearts, learn your lesson quickly. And the overcoming is never the over­coming of the one who troubled you, but the overcoming of the weaknesses and wrong in your own nature, aroused by such a one.

No lower standard than My Standard shall be yours. “Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father in Heaven is perfect.”

I love what this says. It is so hard to do the right thing when we feel that we have been wronged. We want to lash out at that person or group or establishment. Instead we are supposed to look at the situation as a learning experience that maybe was intended to happen to teach us something about ourselves. When we are wronged something negative usually comes out of our own personality. The negative reaction evoked is what we are learn from. We grow when we learn our own weaknesses. How are we to see our own weaknesses if life is a walk in the park? Through adversity we find our true selves. Once we know our true selves we can begin to work on what is broken and become more like Christ.