You may now be finding it hard to set your own agenda - or to separate your problems from someone else's. It is as if you have no option other than to co-operate and comply with a request. Rather than resent this, you might try to find out why it is they seem to feel that they must control you. Often, when people are dogmatic or assertive, it is because, secretly, they feel afraid. Often too, when people are angry, it is only because they are anxious. Once you know what's really wrong you can set about making it right. Are you ready to be helped? That's not an easy question. In theory, you are always willing to accept assistance. In practice? Well, there are times when you feel so sure of what you are doing - or so determined to prove a point, that you will brush off all attempts by others to steer you towards a smarter path. You don't, of course, want to be too easily influenced. But if there really does seem to be a persistent effort to get you to reconsider something, you should honour this with enough respect to at least consider what's being offered to you by God.
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