What have people heard about me?
Yeah, I know that not everything we hear about others is true. But what are the factual things others hear about me?
Anything like this?
“Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints” (Colossians 1:4).
Probably not.
Maybe there’s nothing to report that would be outstanding enough to mention.
If that’s the case, should I be doing anything about it?
Am I supposed to make my faith and love deeper and stronger?
“My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad” (Psalm 34:2).
Too often, the boasting in the secret chamber of my own heart has been in me.
And now what do I have? Key “accomplishments” now seem as sawdust and glorious dreams as the fading sparkles of short-lived-but-spectacular fireworks.
May such bitter lessons be well-learned . . . and not forgotten to be repeated another day.
“Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it” (Psalm 34:14).
So often, I want peace to come to me. I want peace to happen. I want peace to be.
But peace is something to be sought and pursued. Hmmmm!
“The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit” (Psalm 34:18).
Since that’s what it takes, that’s what I want.
(But I don’t like the breaking process!)