Philippians 4: 7 Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. 8 And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. 9 Keep putting into practice all you learned and received from me—everything you heard from me and saw me doing. Then the God of peace will be with you.
this morning.. the man that has been annoying me so badly at work... says something ridiculous about/to someone else in an email and I am copied on it.. my instinct.. my human nature wanted to say something smart to someone else about him... just to push the knife in the reality that he is an idiot... and Jesus stops me.. and tells me to focus my thoughts on that which is true and honorable and right and pure and lovely and admirable... thinking about things that are excellent and worthy of praise... so I did not make the comment that I desired to make... I said nothing at all because it did not need to be said...
I wonder... if we could take our focus off of ourselves... not just for a minute to get our head right.. but really stop focusing on ourselves for the long haul.... I think we would feel so much better... if I sit and think all day about how annoying this man is... and I admit that many times on a wednesday as my entire payroll is pushed late because of him.. I do fall into that... but... is it going to change my situation? no.. I am going to have to walk through this.. and I have a choice.. either I will walk around mad half my life... or I will recognize that this is just a trial or test.. and my job is to be the best me I can be at the time... I am done letting this stupid man control my attitude and feelings and joy... yes.. I said joy.. peace too if I am honest.. because I cannot have peace and joy along with an attitude...
this is my new motto for life: I will fix my thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Thinking about things that are excellent and worthy of praise. 9 Keep putting into practice all I learned and received about God and His goodness—everything you heard from Him and saw Him doing. Then the God of peace will be with me.
I remember a time that I was thinking that peace of mind is priceless... well it STILL is PRICELESS!