Quite some time ago, I had a conversation with someone who was having a difficult time with family members. It was an emotional time for my friend. In this emotional state they began to speak about the situation coming up with the family members in a negative way…claiming that the situation was going to blow up into an argument. It was obvious that there were already hard feelings there. I told this person that the situation didn’t need to blow up and it would and could blow up only if they wanted and allowed it to.
You see, we cannot control what other people do, but we can control what we do and how we react to what others do. If we know that a situation is volatile(or and situation for that fact!), that’s when we should take it to the Lord in prayer.
PRAYER CHANGES THINGS!!
We have different choices that we can make in situations like this. We can take it into our own hands doing any number of things…and more than likely make a mess of the entire situation, or we can give it to the Lord. Giving it to the Lord is the best and wisest decision we can make. And, when we take it to the Lord, of course this fleshly body that we’re in usually wants what it wants when it wants it. We need to remember that we should always ask for God’s will and not our own. We may think that we know exactly what needs to be done in a given situation. But in reality, God is the only One who can see the big picture.
When you find yourself in a sticky situation, remember to take it to the Lord and trust that He will work all things out for the good. In my friends’ situation, I believe that’s exactly what they did. I found out later that everything went swimmingly.
Trust God…He has our best interests at heart.
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