Faith. Believe. Hope.
Three little words that carry so much weight. I have been preaching these words over the past several months to friends and colleagues. I have assured these good people that we just need to have faith, not in human beings but in our God, who will ultimately do what is right and good. I have told them that we must believe that whatever happens, it will be what is best. I have encouraged them to have hope in the days to come.
It's not about them versus us or that side and this side. There is only one side--God's side, whether we like it or not. Whether we trust in Him or not, whatever His plans are...that will be.
We human beings scurry around plotting and planning. We gossip and say hurtful things. We deliberately set out to make others 'pay' for their faults and weaknesses. And in the process we wound not only those we set out to damage, but ourselves as well. In fact, if we look deeply, we will find that the wounds to our own souls are far deeper and much harder to repair than anything we've done to others.
What a sorry lot we are! So ready to point fingers and place blame.
Perhaps our time would be better spent focusing on God and His master plan...LOVE...our neighbors as ourselves.
Today I will do my best to make everything I do and say come from LOVE. Today I will not wallow in my plans and my vengeance. Today I will focus my eyes on the Lord and I will know that His plans are much bigger than anything I could possibly dream. Today I will place all of it in His hands and know that I am being cared for, I do not need to worry. Today I will be grateful.
And tomorrow I'll start over again.
Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.
Matthew 7: 3-5
