Whoa Nellie! Proverbs 19:11

Posted on by Just broken

Proverbs 19:11 (ESV)
11. Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.

Whoa Nellie!!!! Slow to anger! His glory to overlook an offense. If we needed any clarity to how far we’re getting away from God, we need look no farther than these words. So many folks are ready to scream racism, pull a gun, call an attorney, run to HR (or express their puckerbutted displeasure in some form) at the slightest provocation. And feel perfectly good, justified, and right about doing it. Someone slighted me! Harumph, I’ll show you how danged important I am! Really? It is such a worldly reaction, so devoid of sacrificial love, wisdom, or control. Slow to anger….

God has a different plan.

Ecclesiastes 3:12-13 (ESV)
I perceived that there is nothing better for them than to be joyful and to do good as long as they live; also that everyone should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil—this is God’s gift to man.

Hebrews 10:24 (NLT)
24 Let us think of ways to motivate one another to acts of love and good works.

Whoa Nellie! Doesn’t that seem like a better way forward?

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I Love The Father, Son and Holy Spirit and the blessings He has poured into my life. I pray that I live a life that glorifies Him in all I do, but I fail every day, many, many, many times. I have come here through brokenness, a trail of pain and broken promises that I've created through my self centeredness, self will and arrogance. For those I've hurt, please forgive me for what I did. Those things that I remember I am truly sorry I did them. I wish I could undo them. I can't. I use these lessons as motivation to be a builder, to take those experiences and hopefully keep someone else out of their own similar experiences. I love my wife, my children, my family, my friends, my strangers, and those the world would like to dismiss as an unfortunate error messing up worldly perfection. I get frustrated with all of the above too, for I am broken, not like God. Lord, give me your wisdom, your patience, and knowledge of your will for me and the strength to carry that out in all I do. I believe we have work to do while we are here and need to be actively engaged in allowing God to work through us. A Christian is someone who does what The Father, Son and Holy Spirit calls them to do, a builder not a taker, a conduit not a pinnacle, humble and serving. Micah 6:8 Matthew 25:31-46