Our daughter has always been an amazing artist since she was 3 years old. She has always loved art and wanted to be an artist when she grows up. Today two friends at school broke her heart when they laughed at and made fun of her part of a group drawing. We all learned a few important lessons from the Holy Spirit as we walked through this as a family.
First, when someone shares their opinion about you or your actions, those comments are just opinions. An opinion is a view, estimation, belief, judgment or an outlook. Since it is someone else’s belief, it is not a fact. Since the beliefs and views of others are not from God and cannot be confirmed in God’s Word, it is not Truth. Since it is not a fact and not Truth we know it can be disregarded…as trash.
Secondly, we learned that if we do believe in, trust in and rely on the views and opinions good or bad of others that we are denying the Truth of what God says about us. We have to know what God says about us in order to know the difference between Truth and trash.
Third, we discovered that when others say things that in any way destroy us (trash) we know that it is not from God. We know that God came to give life and life more abundantly. Things that destroy are an attack from the enemy. We know that when we see others that are being used by the enemy that they are under some sort of attack. We can see the effects of the spiritual battle they are under. We know that Jesus Christ already crushed the enemy. We know we have authority to call on his name to destroy the enemy. We know that we should be in prayer to defeat the enemies attack on the people we know and love. If we don’t, who will?
These are just a few sweet lessons God brought us as He continues to show us how He can bring about Good in all things. We love you Lord. ty (my husband)
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
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