Your Heart Is The Target

February 28

"Cease from anger, and forsake wrath;
do not fret - it only causes harm."
Psalm 37:8

This can be a hard one. When one is angry, HOW can he cease from it? Anger is powerful and not easily let go.

"But," you say, "I am justified, look at what he/she did to me or said about me!"

You can choose to stay in it, ...but "it only causes harm."

Take it to the Lord, tell him how this is so unfair, (yes, he WILL listen, pour it out before him) then leave it with him and ask that his peace which surpasses all understanding replace the anger.

Always remember that if you are a born-again believer in Jesus Christ you are walking around with a bull's eye on your back. Satan will put it into the hearts of people to say and do hateful things, IN ORDER TO BRING YOU DOWN and render you so filled with emotion that you become useless to the Lord.

RECOGNIZE IT FOR WHAT IT IS.

"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood,
but against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this age,
against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the high places."
Ephesians 6:12

Meditate on this passage. Meditate on it until you "get it," until you come to thoroughly understand that it is Satan using people against you. Get your eyes off the individual, and recognize your true enemy.

Pray with me:
Father, we don't see into the spiritual realm so it's hard to realize that things said or done against us originated not in the person who hurt us, but in the enemy who is determined to destroy us. Father I pray, put YOUR love in my heart so that I can turn the tables on Satan by praying instead for the person he caused to hurt me.