Are You Allowing People To Dictate Your Emotions or Are You Staying Linked To The Word of God?

Are you allowing what others do to dictate your day?   Are you allowing your emotions to be tied to another persons actions?   It's hard not to but you have to begin to "link" your emotions to the Word of God.    Let your joy be based on what God has said.   The Bible says the joy of the Lord is our strength and we can't allow what others do or say to take away our strength in God.

The thing is, people will be people.   They will do and say what they want to do and say and in most cases, they don't care how it affects the people around them.   In some cases, the actions of others are done specifically to "spite" others.  The word "spite" is defined as  a desire to hurt, annoy, or offend someone.  So understand, there are times when others desire to hurt you, annoy you, or to offend you. The questions is, will you be moved and/or motivated by their actions.

God is love and everything that He does is based on the fact that He loves us.   With God's love comes peace, joy, and strength.   God does not do things out of spitefulness.   His motivation comes from who and what He is and that is love.     A link is a relationship between two things or situations, especially where one thing affects the other.  We have to stay linked to God's Word and allow it to affect our attitude, actions, and response to the situations in our lives especially when it comes to the actions of others.  

Stay focused on God and let Him be the motivating factor in your life.

SCRIPTURE MEDITATIONColossians 3:23
And whatsoever ye do, do [it] heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;