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DO NOT YIELD

“Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?”

Romans 6: 16 King James Version

I received another judgmental, criticizing email yesterday and it made me laugh because after he had said everything that I was doing wrong, he said and “I don’t believe you sin every day”. What he doesn’t know is that my first impulse was to send him a harsh, criticizing email in reply.

We have a choice to make when we are attacked, and if we are serving Jesus we will be attacked. We can choose to do what we want to do and say hateful things in return and obey satan, or we can choose to keep our mouths shut and obey Jesus.

I’ve heard this statement made several times in my life. “Some people have to put other people down to feel good”. I think this is a sad but true statement. Many people are insecure about themselves because they have never been shown love and so they don’t know how to love.

For those of us who claim to be a child of God, we have a responsibility and a privilege to show them that Jesus does Love them by the words we say and the way we act toward them. The Love of Jesus is the only thing that will change a person’s heart and life.

The next time we are tempted to be hateful to people because they have been hateful to us, we need to remember that Jesus was criticized more than we have been and He wasn’t hateful. He showed Love, Mercy, Forgiveness and Amazing Grace by giving His Life for us on Calvary.

Joanne Lowe
February 6, 2006
joannelowe8@cox.net

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