People Will Only Treat As You Allow Them To...
John 10:17-18 (Amplified Bible)17) For this [reason] the Father loves Me, because I lay down My [own] life--to take it back again. 18) No one takes it away from Me. On the contrary, I lay it down voluntarily. [I put it from Myself.] I am authorized and have power to lay it down (to resign it) and I am authorized and have power to take it back again. These are the instructions (orders) which I have received [as My charge] from My Father.
When I signed up to go in the United States Air Force. I was signing up and agreeing to many things, many of which I did not fully understand at the time. I was signing up to have someone tell me when to go and come and when to eat. I was even signing up for someone to tell me what time to go to bed and when I would be able to talk on the telephone. I was even signing up to live under a a different legal standard and statues. Although many of the more stringent things went away after Basic training and Technical School, for the remainder of my career and even as a military spouse I lived as people told me, because I signed up to allow this to happen.
Why is it that we sign up in relationships with people to treat us poorly, because we accept a behavior once, twice, three times or more and then we get mad and want to blame the other individual, for their substandard behavior? By our acceptance of behaviors that are less than desirable, we sign on the dotted line to accept less than what we need, want or desire. It is our choice to lie down and be apart of the neglect, control, the lies, deceit and abuse. But isn't it funny that we do the same thing to God. We neglect, abuse our relationship with Him and try to control Him, and yet we don't expect Him to feel like we do when we are on the receiving end, of the same type of behavior. The difference is God is bigger and more equipped to handle our lack of attention than we are to handle it, if He decided to return the favor. But for most of us we would much rather lay down our lives to please a man or a woman that has done little to nothing for us than for us to lie down our lives in true service to God. What we do or do not receive form God is dictated by our actions, our behaviors and how much of Him we are willing to allow in our lives. You see God is not going to hold you down and force feed you a blessing, if your are not allowing Him to bless you.
The next time you are upset about the way you are being treated, know that it is so because you allow it to be so. The next time you are wondering why God is not moving it is because you did not allow it to be so. Don't allow people to treat you the way God never would. Try letting God treat you the way man never could! Sign up for the right treatment, and sign out of the wrong treatment!
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