That's good, Phil!  Thanks for sharing.  You put more into this than what I
was thinking.

Sharon
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From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 11:15 AM
Subject: The Truth Of Right


> THE TRUTH OF RIGHT
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> BY PHIL SCOVELL
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>      Have you ever been in an argument, knowing you were wrong,
> but wishing you were right?  Have you ever been right but it made
> no different to the outcome of the situation?  Have you ever won a
> dispute but discovered afterward that being right had no change to
> the overall situation?  Have you ever been right, but due to
> later presented facts, it was proved you had really been wrong in
> the first place?  Have you ever been wrong but later learned you
> were actually right but realized it meant nothing?
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>      I was praying with a lady one day when the Lord took her back
> to a memory she had of her youth.  She was very small and an
> argument arose between herself and her older brother.  she could
> recall no specific details but just that she and her brother were
> arguing.  They were farmers and he had been working out in the
> fields that day.  Her father, due to the lateness of the hour,
> wanted his daughter to get ready for bed.  somehow, and for some
> reason, she was a little more than fervent about being right.  It
> is likely she was somewhat defiant because she remembers being
> spanked by her father and sent to bed because she wasn't obeying
> his desire for her to get ready for bed.
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>      In prayerfully probing the memory, on more than one
> occasion,  she finally realized the focal point was expressed when
> she said, "I just wanted to be right."  Something about this
> statement caused me to focus spiritually on what the truth might
> be which she needed to hear from the Lord.  I certainly didn't
> know what it was but I asked her to listen as we prayed and asked
> the Lord to show us the truth about her desire to be right.  After
> a considerable time of waiting on the Lord, she remarked, "He said
> that He is always right."  I laughed because the truth was so
> plain and simple; it had to be God.
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>      This statement has had a powerful effect upon my own life
> personally.  Here was a little girl, who desired nothing more than
> to be right, and apparently had the feeling she lost the argument
> because she was punished and put to bed.  It was even her bedtime
> but she just wanted to be right.  Perhaps she was right, too.  The
> truth was, and is, however, that Jesus is always right.  Even if
> we are wrong.  Even if we make a mistake.  Even if sin has
> attempted to corrupt our relationship with the Lord.  Even if we
> feel punished unjustly.  the truth is Jesus, that is, Jesus is
> always right.  Regardless of how we feel, regardless of the
> outcome of a circumstance, regardless to the nature of any given
> situation, the truth that sets us free is that Jesus is always
> right.  the meaning of this statement is beyond our comprehension
> as a Christian because the meaning is that Jesus is always the
> truth.  Mess up your life, screw up a relationship, destroy
> something you believe God gave you, lose something precious to
> you, squander away something that was incredibly important to you,
> lose a family, drop the ball, miss a goal, fail, freak out,
> discover you are a day late and a dollar short, find out how
> stupid you feel because you failed to succeed, call for heads and
> discover it always comes up tails, run a race and no matter how
> hard you try, you still come in everything but first, get up on
> the wrong side of the bed, the side with the wall, misjudge, fall,
> miscalculate, lose, forget, misplace, forfeit, fracture, break,
> crack, shatter, fragment, sin, come up empty, get the wrong
> answer, miscalculate your bank balance, bounce a check or two,
> lose your job, get cancer, screw up, trash out, go amiss, lose a
> child, abort your baby, over react, strike out, fall in the mud,
> run away, trip over your own feet, lose the game, shoot yourself
> in the foot, crack up, overestimate, luck out, fail the final
> test, hurt the one you love the most, miss figure, give up, stub
> your toe, pass beyond the point of no return, miss the target,
> become ill, or even die.  I could easily add a hundred more things
> to this list, too.  The answer is still the same; Jesus is always
> right.  Learn that truth and all will become new.
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> Phil C Sharp
> The Coil Of The snake
> A Free Online E-Novel
> www.SafePlaceFellowship.com
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