Practice What You Preach!

“Do not judge, or you too will be judged” Matthew 7:1


     If this post is for anybody, it is for me!! Not more than two days ago I wrote on the negative power of anger. Little did I know I would be put to the test on this one in a such a short time later. It all began with my old computer crashing and the purchase of a brand new one. In two days I have had TWO computers! Needless to say, Damien (who sold me the first one) and I are no longer BFF…just kidding. I went right back and bought the second one from him, too!
     I downloaded the anti-virus that worked for Damien, but blew our computers out. I stayed on the phone with our router company for four hours, got everyone up and running BUT me! All is well though. I have learned a valuable lesson of never going with an anti-virus I have never heard of and that the number 1 product is number 1 for a reason!
By the end of it all, trying to get through a break down of communication and having to pay forty dollars to have it, staying on the phone for four hours when it should have been a relaxing afternoon, it taking my husband and me both since we had to have two companies at once on the phone at the same time, hungry in the process of it all and now exhausted, it was just too easy to be tempted to be short with everyone in the house including the barking dogs!
     I then thought of a thought I had had about a particular person. It went something like this, “They need to practice what they preach!” Whatever you judge, believe me you will eat! I have always said that, and today I almost experienced it. I have learned to be very careful of what I say, because as sure as I say it (or write it) I will be accountable for it!
     You never know what you are made of until you are pressured to extreme limits. Suddenly the “real you” comes out. It is one way to see what character traits you have and ones you NEED to have! It will make or break your witness and once broken sometimes it is gone forever! It can make you ineffective, and forever disrespected. It can also show you what great character you have developed. Proverbs 15:23 says, “A person finds joy in giving an apt reply — and how good is a timely word!” You can keep someone from making drastic mistakes or help promote them to greater things because you are respected due to that great character!
    Keep yourself in place when the pressure is on. The anointing, which is compared with oil, is what flows out of you when the pressure is on just like in an olive press! Maybe you are being put through the “olive press”, but remember how good olive oil is for everyone’s health!
     God bless you, my dear reader! Thank you for stopping by! I appreciate you very much!! Have a blessed week, all week!