Defensiveness

Do you ever catch yourself being defensive? Maybe someone said something to you, or said something about you. Human nature is to react. To strike back. To overreact. Often, this defensiveness is a sign that we are not whole. When we are defensive, we are saying that we don't know who we are. We are saying that we are not confident in our self awareness.

Imagine that you are whole. Imagine that I am whole. When the attacking words come from others, wouldn't we react totally differently? When a little dog barks at us, we think, "oh, it is just a little dog." We are confident in who we are.

How about let's remember that God tells us that he loves us. He tells us that we are good. We are created in his image. If God is for us, who can be against us? Let other people say what they will, God is good and he loves us. We don't need to be defensive, we need to remember whose we are. I would rather spend my time thinking about God than unhappy people anyway.

It's a beautiful day in God's world, don't worry about what mean people may say, open your eyes and see the good that the Lord has placed in you and in his world.