Words Of Encouragement To Start The Day ( Friday 3/6/09)

If It Wasn't Drama Would You Feel This Way?

Proverbs 16:27-29 (Amplified Bible)

²⁷⁾ A worthless man devises and digs up mischief, and in his lips there is as a scorching fire.

    ²⁸⁾ A perverse man sows strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

    ²⁹⁾ The exceedingly grasping, covetous, and violent man entices his neighbor, leading him in a way that is not good.

Proverbs 10:12 (Amplified Bible)

¹²⁾ Hatred stirs up contentions, but love covers all transgressions.

     Preteens and teenagers seem to love drama, issues and problems.  It seems at times to be the air that they breath and the lingo that they speak.  My greatest chore since my daughter was in the 5th grade, has been to strongly encourage her out of the company of young woman that have thrived on drama and mess.  Even in the years when I was blessed to teach teen ministry one of the greatest issues that we counseled and dealt with was drama, bullying and gossiping (mess) initiated at the hands of their peers.    But I have found that is not just young people that enjoy being engulfed in drama, adults do as well. The more drama there is the more they like it.  I have often placed myself in a place to try to counsel with, encourage people and advise people trapped in these situations, sometimes only to be seen to be involved myself, by those on the outside.  What a mess and drama that can be...

     I have even found that often if God gives me a word of love the reaction is different than if he gives a word of instruction, correction, reproof or rebuke.  People would sometime rather hear how God is going to somebody back for what they have done to them, then to hear that He alone is God and He is all that we need.  We have become so in tune to this world and the way it functions that we function the same way.  We have learned to function in the darkness instead of choosing to become the light.  We often choose to find ourselves consumed with the drama of pulling another down then the business of God of building our brothers and sisters up.  If only we could truly know the love of God then we would know what it is to really accentuate the positive, and eliminate the negative.  My Grandmother use to say if you do not have anything nice to say than do not say anything at all.  Sometimes it is best for us to walk away from people and circumstances that would pull us into the old nature that would have us consumed with drama, negativism and counter productivity.

     If you took a pig and cleaned him up real nice and placed  in a yard, he would find the mud or dirt almost immediately.  Why, because that is the nature of the pig.   If there was a way to retrain the pig and the way he viewed the mud he would not be apt to go back to the mud.  As the word says in Romans 12:2 "Do not be conformed to this world (this age), [fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs], but be transformed (changed) by the [entire] renewal of your mind [by its new ideals and its new attitude], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God, even the thing which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His sight for you]."  To really see drama, gossip and discord as destructive and ungodly, you have to see as God sees and begin to do as God does.  When we are obedient to walk as Jesus walks, we will then see that the things that use to hold our attention won't, hold our attention anymore.  We will also notice the injustices and the arrogance's that are celebrated by this world will become something that will drive us to our knees on the behalf of those that are in celebration.  I will leave you with a title of a message I preached one time, "Come Out Of Your Mess So You Can Be Blessed, S You Can Enter His Rest."  It is the only way to really be HAPPY and to be FREE!