Scripture is Perfect

Today, I was about ready to get on my high horse about something inconsequential with a friend. I practically had to give my tongue a restraining order so I wouldn’t be spiteful, hurtful, bitter, and jealous. I sat, with my mouth clamped shut, even though I was sorely tempted to accuse a friend of not caring about poor little old me.

I began reading emails to distract myself and in there…was a Scripture, which reads as thus:
For I say, through the grace given to me, to everyone who is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think soberly, as God has dealt to each one a measure of faith. Romans 12:2 NKJV

Suitably chastised, I let it go. My whole indignant accusation went right out the window.

See, God gives you what you need when you need it. I’m not perfect and neither is anyone else, but God gives us what we need, at the exact moment we need it. It’s our job to pay attention, and sometimes that is the hardest part for me. It’s easy for me to get wrapped up in the emotions in a situation, and forget to pay attention.

This is just one little example of things that happen to prune a person, as if he or she were a grapevine.

Maybe some of you don’t even agree with me, and that’s all right. I’m not going to thump anyone over the head with a Bible or anything – all I can share is what I experience