I know a lot of people probably dont read my posts because they are either 1. too long, 2. Too Christian, 3. Too Boring. or 4. You just really dont care about Lyndon Sports. If its the last one, were going to have to talk. :-) Seriously; what I write, I write, not because I think Im better than anyone or because I think anyones a bad person. I try to be an encouragement and strengthen you in your spiritual walk, particularly in your walk and faith in Christ. (Now this is getting long again. :-) ) Today, what I copy and paste was a devotion shared with me from English Manna. Hope you read and let the simple message be absorbed in your mind. More than half of our life is spent in reactions. When we feel happy about what others are saying, we are reacting. When we feel angry about what others are saying, we are reacting as well. We react when we are agitated, and we react when we resent mistreatment. When we analyze human living carefully, we find that we live in our reactions more than half the time. Let us read Matthew 5:38-48. This section of the Word deals with reactions. An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth means that if anyone hurts my eye, I will also hurt his eye. If anyone breaks my tooth, I will also break his tooth. I will do to others as they have done to me. This is one kind of reaction. Men in the Old Testament age reacted this way under the law. However, the Lord said that our reaction should be different. We should be different in the way we react. We should not resist those who are evil. Do you realize that the left cheek, the cloak, and the second mile are all Christian reactions? Mans demand is the right cheek, but our reaction is to give the left cheek as well. Mans demand is the tunic, but our reaction is an additional cloak. Mans demand is one mile, but the Christian reaction is two miles. The whole of Matthew 5 reminds us of one thing--our reactions have to be different. The Christian life is expressed through a totally different set of reactions.
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 12:56:36 +0000
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