So I've been watching the crazy relationships in One Tree Hill (episodes in the 50's), and it's such a strange world to me. A place where people keep things from other people in order to save them from getting hurt. A place where the good girl leaves her husband to pursue her dreams, which sounds okay in a way if she were on a short-term trip, but she goes by her maiden name and doesn't tell the press that she's married... A place where a girl sleeps with a random guy because she is scared of a relationship with the guy she truly loves because she's afraid of getting hurt by him... A place where a husband threatens his wife with her life as he runs for mayor, pressuring her to play the nice wife in an exchange of blackmail...
What the crap? Do people really act this way? Not anyone I know. At least, I don't think I do... But, to an extent, I do think there are things folks do "in the better interest of another," don't you think? It always ends up blowing up in your face eventually, so why even bother? As you've tried manipulating situations and being a control freak, how long as it lasted before people figure you out, or how long is it before it stops working, or before you get caught? Isn't it tiring and unsatisfying?
Aren't you able to pick out control freaks around you? And don't you look at 'em like they've lost their minds; a bit disgusted by them, in fact? No one wants to be around those kinds of folks, people. But sometimes we don't realize that we're those kind of people until we allow God to test us and show us who we've become.
I looked up the word, "control," in my bible, and you know what came up? Yes, a few verses about control. But not once, did it say to control or manipulate the situations around you. To me, it sounds like quite the opposite. It tells you to control yourself. That's it. Just you. That's all you need to worry about. No one but yourself. If you have a problem with someone, then go to that person to resolve it. Matthew tells us that. All you need to worry about is you. Not your judgement on anyone else but yourself.
Better a patient man than a warrior,
a man who controls his temper than one who takes a city.
-Proverbs 16:32
A fool gives full vent to his anger,
but a wise man keeps himself under control.
-Proverbs 29:11
It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality; that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God; and that in this matter no one should wrong his brother or take advantage of him.
-1 Thessalonians 4:3-5
The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace; the sinful mind is hostile to God.
Therefore, brothers, we have an obligation--but it is not to the sinful nature, to live according to it.
-Romans 8:6, 12
All in love, Tara K
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