Have you ever woke up in the morning and thought to yourself do I have to go to work today? Sometimes it's hard to make yourself get up and walk out that door with a good attitude because you know when you arrive you will be facing the most in polite and negative person you have ever meet. Well let me tell you that is how my day starts every day Monday - Friday. I work with a person who is the meanness, hateful, and in your face rude person. She just really knows how to pushes those button on me. When she calls yourself trying to be nice it is all for show and all fake, or she wants something from you. She is always the first to point out other peoples mistakes and faults and hardly has a nice thing to say about anyone. She thinks she knows it all and you can't tell her anything. She will try and prove you wrong on everything. Now if she makes a mistake she tries to hide it and if it does come out in the light (which everything does) she is moody and makes everyone around her miserable. If she isn't happy then know one can be happy. So you ask yourself why God why am I here at this place with this person.
Well here is the answer I received. You are there because I need you to be the light in that place. Through you I need to shine. You need to get up every morning with a great attitude and put on that full armor of God. (Ephesians 6:13-14) Go out the door with the attitude that no matter what I am not going to let her steal my joy, peace and happiness. I am going smile and be polite and if the opportunity comes along that I can bless her, then I will do that too. (you know it will too, that is just how he works)
The point of today's "Life Moments", is take every day and enjoy to the fullest. Know that he has you were you are for a reason. You may not understand it and you may not see the reward today, tomorrow or even this year, but you will see it. For he loves us so much that he gave his son to die for us so we good have life to the fullest. He didn't say there wouldn't be bumps in the road or trials to go through, but it is how we manage those bumps and trials that determines the end results. Know that he is watching and just maybe that person who is giving you headaches at work, just maybe that through you they will see and make adjustments in their life's.
Enjoy all of "Life Moments", and see with the next Life Moments.
One of my favorite verses in the Bible is II Corinthians 5:7 "For we walk by faith not by sight"
Matthew 5:44-45
ReplyDeleteJesus said "I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them who hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven"
I am praying for your enemies too! Maybe one day your shining light will help her find hapiness as one of God's children too!
I hope so, I hate to think that I serve no purpose here. We don't know what makes this person the way they are. There could be some deep thing within going on with them. I will keep praying for them and that the Lord will be able to get deep in their heart. We all go through stuff, that is life, but he watches how we handle the stuff. Do we do it with a kind and gentle heart, or do we let them win and make us bitter. I choose not to let them win and keep my joy. For the joy is with the Lord. I pray he will bless her.
ReplyDeleteBeautifully said Cheryl.
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