Get Off It!

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Sorry for the picture I had on before.  I didn't realize who that was in the picture!  He looked so young!  My apologizes!

Tonight's blog is Rated R.  Please be advised.

Woo-hoo.  I feel like Jesus when He flipped the tables over in the temple.  Today I have to say, "Get off your high horse."  I just heard a story from Perry Stone Jr. about a prisoner who was molested as a small child by either his dad or uncle.  Then his mother remarried, and later left him behind, leaving him living with a step father and a step mother.  When he was a young teenager, his stepfather was urinate on him while he stood in the tub, laughing at him.  He would also smack him with the belt in his groin, laughing at him.  He would kick him, beat him, etc. while his stepmother would laugh.  This young man whom all these horrible things happened to is now in jail for 105 years, no bail, charged of murder.  No justification on his sin, but can you see now why he was so full of this rage?  He is saved now, and has forgiven those who hurt him.  But you can't even forgive someone who looked at you cross-eyed at church?!

The above paragraph is a paraphrase taken from my monthly Message of the Month I get from Perry Stone Jr.

I have been working with some kids at church.  They are pretty hard to keep in line, just because they're kids.  But they really are absolutely amazing.  They forget things really quick, like remembering to sing loud enough or do a certain motion.  But they can sing a song completely in African!  It's amazing!  They learned the song faster than I did!  They're incredible!  And as hard as it is for me to try to get them to act civilized and decently, the adults in the past few days make these children look like heavenly playful little fluffs of cotton candy!  And I know I need to check myself sometimes, but what I've seen lately is ridiculous!  Grow up!  So what if something didn't go your way?  So what if so-and-so didn't think put you on a platform for all the world to see?  With that negative attitude that you've got, maybe you didn't need to be spotlighted in the first place?

If this guy in prison can forgive someone who made his first 20 years on this earth a living hell, why can't you accept and forgive the wrong in the others around you?  You might find out that they're not so wrong after all.  Maybe you just needed to check your attitude at the door, Miss High and Mighty.  You know, some people really do want the Kingdom of God to grow, to prosper.  And those who don't even want any credit are those people that we should wanna be most like.  Not the ones on the platform shining bright light the Christmas Star on top of the tree!

The Lord's curse is on the household of the wicked, but He blesses the home of the righteous;  He mocks those who mock, but gives grace to the humble.  Proverbs 3:33-34

Please just take a moment to think about those arrows that you are shooting at people's back in all your hautiness.  

-Tara K