Someone pushed my buttons this week. No, make that someone pushed the open button on my mental filing cabinet... and before I knew it I realized an interesting and revealing action-reaction emotion.
As I said earlier, one of my buttons was pushed, the insulted one to be accurate... and it really fired me up. As I'm prone to do, I decided to sleep on it and face it the next day with a clear mind. I prayed that night. I prayed for the wisdom to resolve it in a way that would please God.
I attempted to put things into perspective, but as I did, all these similar occasions from my past came flowing back. There were files all over the place! It took the better part of three days to collect all the files and neatly place them back into their folders in the filing cabinet.
What I realized was that every time someone pushes that particular painful button, files start randomly flying all over the place. And the conflict isn't resolved until all of those files, every single one of them, is collected, sorted, refiled and that cabinet drawer is securely closed.
What a waste of time. What a waste of mental energy. What a slap in God's face.
A truly forgiving heart could put a permanent lock on that filing cabinet. It would erase all those words and actions and remove all those old, dog-eared and yellowed files.
Files all over the place? What's a boy to do? Pray, forgive and then get rid of the filing cabinet.
To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable, because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you. (C.S. Lewis)
Pray on,
Eddy
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