When You Feel Let Down (Part 4)
-Be productive and speak up about your feelings of disappointment or betrayal.
I believe it’s important to pick your battles and if you don't fight for yourself, then nobody else can. I know the Bible says if you have ought against your brother you should seek to make amends, but that doesn't always work in the best way possible today. If you are wrong admit it, ask forgiveness, and move on past it. Jesus said your bounds of forgiveness should be limitless, even if you're right. Yet, sometimes you have to defend your self from situations that would ruin your reputation and cause you spiritual grief. It's in those times you have to deal with these questions:
-Is the person who has caused you grief pliable and capable of listening to your perspective on the situation?
-What do you want from the conversation-an apology, an attempt to make amends, or a promise to not over react so quickly without understanding the whole situation?
-If you speak up, can you do it mindfully, rather than with an angry reactivity that can make things worse?
Paul said it this way in Ephesians 4:26-32:
"Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."
Don't you your hurt as a crutch to fail, but as a mountain to climb. Don't let it boil over inside of you. Speak it out, get it under the blood, and trust God to bring you through and out of the valley of darkness you are in.
-Be productive and speak up about your feelings of disappointment or betrayal.
I believe it’s important to pick your battles and if you don't fight for yourself, then nobody else can. I know the Bible says if you have ought against your brother you should seek to make amends, but that doesn't always work in the best way possible today. If you are wrong admit it, ask forgiveness, and move on past it. Jesus said your bounds of forgiveness should be limitless, even if you're right. Yet, sometimes you have to defend your self from situations that would ruin your reputation and cause you spiritual grief. It's in those times you have to deal with these questions:
-Is the person who has caused you grief pliable and capable of listening to your perspective on the situation?
-What do you want from the conversation-an apology, an attempt to make amends, or a promise to not over react so quickly without understanding the whole situation?
-If you speak up, can you do it mindfully, rather than with an angry reactivity that can make things worse?
Paul said it this way in Ephesians 4:26-32:
"Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath: Neither give place to the devil. Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you."
Don't you your hurt as a crutch to fail, but as a mountain to climb. Don't let it boil over inside of you. Speak it out, get it under the blood, and trust God to bring you through and out of the valley of darkness you are in.
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