Don't Play the Button Game

What are your buttons? What are those sensitive areas of your life that when exposed instantaneously ignites a response? What are those buttons that get an immediate knee-jerk reaction when pushed? Everyone has a few; and they are usually obvious to others, especially those close to us. When conflicts or disagreements occur, you can be assured that buttons will get pushed.

Don’t play the button pushing game on others and don’t allow others to play the game with you. The game never produces a winner and builds walls that are difficult to tear down. Resolve conflict and disagreements by disconnecting the sensitivity wire that connects to your emotions and resist the temptation to push the other person’s button. You will be surprised at how even the biggest disagreements can be resolved.  Share 

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls. (Proverbs 25:28)

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Seek to be Meek!

Meekness is strength under control.

Meekness is strength under control.  Albert Barnes defines meekness as “patience in the reception of injuries. It is neither meanness, nor a surrender of our rights, nor cowardice; but it is the opposite of sudden anger, of malice, of long-harbored vengeance.” 

We practice meekness when we quietly endue injustices for the sake of Christ or when we hold our tongue when we have the right to explode. It is a quality that requires the work of Holy Spirit within us. It is also a characteristic of a mature person. The practice of meekness is especially beneficial in relationships and in leadership. Seek to be meek.

He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls. (Proverbs 25:28)

Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth. (Matthew 5:5) 

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Beware Where You Let Your Heart Go!

His wives turned away his heart. 1 Kings 11:4.

EVERY man is vulnerable at one point of his character. Strong everywhere else, and armour-plated, he is weak there; and our great enemy knows just where to strike home. It would have been useless to argue with Solomon for the claims of idols. He could at once, by his wisdom, have annihilated all infidel arguments, and have established the existence and unity of God. But, step by step, he was led by silken cords, a captive, to the worship of other gods. It is  a solemn warning; and Nehemiah was perfectly justified when, in his contention with the Jews who had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab, he said, "Did not Solomon, king of Israel, sin by these things! Yet among many nations there was no king like him who was beloved of his God."

Let young people beware where they let their hearts go forth in love. Whom we love we resemble; and in the marriage tie it is almost inevitable that seductions to the lower will overcome the drawings to the higher. When a Christian disobeys God's distinct command against intermarriage with the ungodly, he begins to sink to the level of his ungodly partner whom he had thought to raise to his own religious standing.

Our associates determine the drift and current of our life. It is so easy to launch upon the current that flows past our feet; it seems impossible that the laughing, enticing water should ever carry us against sharp, splintering rocks, or over breaking cataracts. When we are compelled to associate with the ungodly, let us maintain a strict self-watch, and pray that the breath of the heavenward gale may more than counteract the tendency of the earthward current. -F. B. Meyer, Homily 

The Quest Today!

Today’s mission is to seek wisdom. 

Wisdom is more than just knowledge. Wisdom – godly wisdom is finding the truth and using that knowledge to making right choices. 

Wisdom begins with an awe of God that turns into trust and worship. True worship results in obedience and obedience results in right choices. 

Some say wisdom cannot be found. However the Bible says, “If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him” (James 1:5). The quest of today and everyday is to seek wisdom.


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