Words Of Encouragement To Start The Day (Tuesday 03/29/2011)

So Busy Doin Me…

Proverbs 21:2-3 (New Living Translation)

² People may be right in their own eyes, but the Lord examines their heart.³ The Lord is more pleased when we do what is right and just
      than when we offer him sacrifices.

            Tonight I sort of hit a wall, came to an epiphany and made some resolutions.  Somewhere deep down inside I could hear myself saying I am fed up and I am just not going to take it anymore.  Most of my life I have been tender in heart and kind in spirit.  I still maintain that is how it should be, and that we should not have to suspect the worse in people, or have to constantly examine someone’s motives.  But I have found especially recently that people are so busy doin them, not doing God’s version of them, but the version that they see that they should be, that they have become reckless, and uncaring with God and those around them.  They have taken to doing what suits them, in the moment, what feeds their ego, and what keeps them happy, even if it hurts, destroys, or makes someone else miserable, uncomfortable or outs them in a place of lack or grieves The Holy Spirit. I wonder for one moment if the tables were turned would that be okay, to you if someone decided to conduct themselves in a manner that made you the sacrifice and caused you the pain?

            We are so busy doing us, being us, creating who we think we should be and recreating ourselves, to draw attention to ourselves with no thought for who it affects.  We forget that in those moments that you are getting those warm fuzzies that, they won’t last long before you will need another fix to make you feel that way again.  We forget that God is watching us, and judging us, as we act, and in our actions towards others.  We forget that the ditch that we often dig through our lack of compassion, consideration, nasty attitudes and just blatant disregard will be ours.  My mother use to say, don’t burn bridges that you may need to cross again.  But we burn them dismantle them, blow them up in some case, all in an effort to get our way and to have thing come out in our favor in only for a moment in time.  We answer only what we desire and what pertains or benefits us and we leave anything that requires us to be responsible or mature unanswered, undealt with and often unattended to.  All the while feeling no shame about our conduct, our attitudes, our motives or our lack of consideration for God, how He asked us to live or how He asked us to treat one another.   But the one thing I have learned in life is that Doing us, and leaving God’s will, His desire and commands out of the mix, will eventually lead us to our own place of despair, destruction and our own demise.  You see, nothing good comes from this flesh, because its origin is the Adamic nature, which is sin and self-serving and self-gratifying. It seeks its own, without thought for its creator, its original intent or its fellow man.

            As we go about our day, before we utter the words, I don’t care because I am doing me.  Or before we cop the attitude I need to be happy and the heck with everyone else. Before we serve someone else up, on the altar of self-serving motivation, we need to ask God to examine us, look at what is in us that is not in His will and will not align itself with His plan for our lives.  We need to ask, instead of how I can get what I want by any means necessary, how can I preserve and ensure the health and well-being of those who are friends, family members and loved ones.  We need to be choosing to do God and doing things His way, because after all He is the one who has the final say and judges not just our hearts but our motives and lives too! Get it right, you choosing to do you, and giving yourself a moment of pleasure can end up giving someone else a days, weeks, months or years of pain, and ending you up with and eternity of some painful discomfort, that you did not bargain for, think about it!