Sunday, February 21, 2016

NOT EVERYONE IS YOUR FRIEND

Proverbs 22:24-25                 Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man, lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.


Have you ever seen an entire oyster shell without an oyster in it? You may have wondered how the oyster got out. If you looked closely at the shell you might find a very small hole at the top. This hole is made by a whelk. This ocean creature has an appendage that acts like a drill. The whelk is able to use this to bore holes into the oyster shell and then suck the oyster out through the hole, little by little. Through a small whole in the shell, a whelk can do great harm and cause death.

Very often, we allow another person’s angry outbursts, their critical remarks, or their cynical comments to bore a hole into our good nature and rob us or our otherwise sunny dispositions. If we are not careful, we can become irritated to the point where genuine anger and bitterness begin to develop within us. And when that happens, we are in very real danger of experiencing disease, disharmony and discord.

One of the best things you can do is simply to avoid those people whom you find irksome, continually critical, or habitually angry at life, as well as those who seem to delight in needling you all the time. In other words, stay out of the way of whelks. Jesus said that if you hand causes you to sin, then cut it off. If certain people are dragging you down into THEIR pit, cut them off to access in your life. You will find yourself experiencing a healthier and happier life again.


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