WWYD (what would YOU do?)
What do you do when you don’t get your way?
I have been known to pout, whine, and generally behave like a three year old.
Reality is that we are, for the most part, spoiled. We want what we want, when we want it. We might accept no for an answer, but we won’t accept it for long. We start scheming, even manipulating, to get whatever it is we have our eye on.
Those WWJD (what would Jesus do) bracelets that were so popular a few years ago have always fascinated me. I sported one myself for awhile. I was convinced it would serve as a reminder that my behavior was supposed to mirror that of our Lord. Except it didn’t.
I would follow the WWLD method (what would Linda do), then glance at the bracelet and swear I would do better. Finally I gave up. I realized that a bracelet couldn’t make me do something if I didn’t want to do it. Change had to come from the inside, not from a piece of jewelry.
And that’t the problem with many of us. We claim we want to change, maybe we even want to change. But we don’t want it enough to really take that step.
This past weekend I didn’t get something that I wanted. I had a chance to take the high road and not act like a spoiled child. I thought about it, rationalized in my brain, knew what the right thing to do was…
and I acted like a spoiled child…
and got my way…
and now, in retrospect, I’m embarrassed by my behavior. Oh, nobody knows but me.
Check that. God knows.
I didn’t just let myself down, I let Him down.
I can’t go back and fix it. I can’t rewrite my personal history of behavior. But I can keep trying to do better. And I will.
And, folks, that is just what we are called to do as Christians. You see, God wants us to try to do what His son would do. But He also knows that many times we will fail. And yet, He loves us totally and completely.
That’s what God does!
May 4th, 2009 at 10:20 am
Dear Linda and friends please pray for me. My burdens seem very heavy right now.I am bending to the ground.