May 6, 2024 – Mad About Nothing

Mad About Nothing
May 6, 2024

DAILY PROVERB:

Proverbs 11:17-19
The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh. The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward. As righteousness tendeth to life: so he that pursueth evil pursueth it to his own death.

 

OUTLOOK ON THE IN BOOK:

       Two men had been working together for months. While they weren’t best friends, they got along just fine. One day, one of the men overheard the other calling him by name and saying, “He thinks that we are friends, but we’re not.” Those words cut like a knife. He had never done anything to make this man dislike him. Not a single harsh word, not a cross look, nothing that he could recall.

    Day after day for weeks, he would see the other man in the shop, and as he walked by, he would smile and say, “Hey, how’s it going?” Out of courtesy, he would reply, “fine.” Yet, in his heart, he grew to hate it more and more. It bothered him so much that he started clocking in at the other end of the plant just to avoid seeing him.

    One day, at a family reunion, he was shocked to see the same man there. He thought to himself, “What? Why is this person at MY FAMILY REUNION? I hate him. He has no business here.” As he walked over to confront him, the man turned around and said, “Hey, how’s it going?” That was the breaking point. Frustrated, he replied, “Terrible, that’s how it’s going. What in the heck are you doing at my family reunion?” The man chuckled and said, “That’s funny. I was just telling a guy at work the other day who had asked me if we were friends, and I said, you thought we were friends, but we were not… we’re relatives.” Immediately, the man realized he had only heard part of the conversation and had been angry for weeks for no reason at all. Whom did it hurt? It hurt only him.

    Anger eats at us, and only us. “…He that is cruel troubleth his own flesh.” 

THE WORD WALKING IN ME:

    Anger and hate are like a cancer. They will eat away at you and cause all types of mental and physical problems. Forgiveness is truly a better way to go through life. Anger takes a lot of work to maintain, but forgiveness you can give over to God.

What may be eatting away at you
that you could turn over to God?

 

IF YOU ARE JOURNALING:

Ask yourself, what are MY THOUGHTS concerning this Passage, and todays Devotion?

 

Do I find within this reading a CHALLENGE for my life?

 

What are one or two things I WILL DO today or this week to accept that CHALLENGE?

 

  

GOD TALKING TO ME: May 6, 2024

THROUGH THE BIBLE WITH A DAILY PROVERBS
    2 Kings 18 – 21
   Proverbs 11:17-19

 

THROUGH THE BIBLE OLD & NEW TESTAMENT DAILY
  2 Samuel 4-6
   Luke 23:1-26