We can learn a lot of lessons from death, one is – don’t procrastinate to long if you need to tell someone something important.
How many times do we let the little things stand in our way of expressing how we feel?
I’ve adopted a philosophy of living one day at a time, dealing with tomorrow when it comes. This is not to say we should live each day with reckless accord, but we need not be obsessed with things we cannot control and worry about things we can’t do anything about.
Who Do You Need to Make Up With?
Are there people important to you whom you’ve distanced yourself from for some silly misunderstandings?
Is there a situation where your ego is keeping you from mending a relationship with someone you really care for?
When I make a reference to sin I’m referring to a negative force. When we allow sin to dictate our feelings and thoughts we set ourselves up for trouble. Sin has a lot of little tricks it plants in our thoughts that can drive a wedge between us and people we care for. These little things I refer to have names, names like: Egos, Anger, Pride, Envy, you get the idea.
I must remind you that we ALLOW sin to enter our thoughts and we can CONTROL what enters our mind.
The sad part is there is a whiplash effect when sin does this to us. The first whip is making us feel justified in feeling anger or pride, the second effect is guilt. Use this an an example – You have a argument with a loved one, you allowed anger to get the best of you and storm out in anger. You feel sorry and want to apologize, but you hold off for a week because your ego comes into play. You finally realize you need to make up, but the night before that person died in a car accident.
Now, how bad do you feel? Guilt eats you up because you realize you should have never procrastinated, it’s to late, the person is gone and you have to live with that. This is how sin works, it feeds you your ego, then slaps you on the other side with guilt. It’s a lose-lose situation when it comes to sin.
If I Could Do it All Over Again
You hear this comment many times, people think they lost the chance and lament of the past. What they don’t realize is you can do it over again, you are given more chances to do things right going forward.
This is one of the lessons that death leaves us with. As long as we’re still here, lets get it right in the future. Yes, you may have missed the chance with someone dear to you. Yes, it hurts like a bi___, but don’t allow sin to continue to play you again, learn from it.
Accidents happen, these days cancer can take you out in a matter of months, how about heart attacks and strokes – the thing is we just don’t know when the time will come.
Don’t let anger and pride rule your actions. Next time you’re confronted with this situation remember how short life can be and make every attempt to clear the air. You can’t control death, but you can control forgiveness, make the right choice next time something like this happens.
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