Monday Motto - Please God

1 Cor 4:12-13 We work hard with our own hands. When we are cursed, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it; when we are slandered, we answer kindly.

Monday Motto: Please God

In this passage of scripture Paul gives tells us what he and the apostles do when bad things happen:

--they get to work
--they bless
--they endure
--they answer kindly

The more common way would look more like this:

 SIT DOWN, HAVE A FEW CHOICE WORDS TO SAY, COMPLAIN, AND SNAP BACK for the injustice of it all.

Working with your hands requires you to GET UP and DO SOMETHING  -- Put your energy into positive things. To bless means that you have to let alot just ROLL OFF like the water on a ducks back and FORGIVE. To endure you must be GROUNDED in the WORD and have that SHEILD of FAITH to quench all those firey darts of the enemy when you are persecuted. To answer kindly requires that you know that WHAT COMES OUT OF YOU WILL DEFILE YOU not what another says and so you reply with kindness...you do unto others as you have them do to you.

These things are hard to do especially when you get down to that last one when we want to REACT to what people around us are saying about us...BUT WITH GOD all things are possible.

Most of them boil down to : Will you please God or Man???

Father help us to please you at all times...help us when we are weak to speak kindly. Give us a heart transplant and hook us up to the true source of Christ within. Help us to know that when we see the impossible and we begin to feel like weak and lowly no good creatures because we have behaved un-Christlike that YOU ARE RIGHT THERE to help us. Let us ask for forgiveness quickly and forgive ourselves and start walking in CHRIST right where we are.

F & L'er
Starla