One day Abraham invited a beggar to his tent for a meal. When grace was being said the man began to curse God, declaring he could not bear to hear His Name.
Seized with indignation, Abraham drove the blasphemer away.
When he was at his prayers that night, God said to him, “This man has cursed and reviled me for fifty years and yet I have given him food to eat every day. Could you not put up with him for a single meal?”
Sometimes, it helps me to remember that people are broken. My mom did the best that she could. She was a child of the depression. She had no college education. She always felt inferior herself.
Seized with indignation, Abraham drove the blasphemer away.
When he was at his prayers that night, God said to him, “This man has cursed and reviled me for fifty years and yet I have given him food to eat every day. Could you not put up with him for a single meal?”
Sometimes, it helps me to remember that people are broken. My mom did the best that she could. She was a child of the depression. She had no college education. She always felt inferior herself.
If we choose to react to what people do to us, we can get ugly really fast. But if we remember that everyone is broken, we can allow the hurt, the slights, and the rejections to roll off of our backs.
It's a beautiful day in God's world, be sure to see the good.
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I am, along with Sherri Swanson and Aaron Brown, leading a trip to the Holy Land January 23-February 2, 2023.
For more information, click the link below. And if you have any questions, please feel free to email me at jsbrink57@gmail.com
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