Phil,

I really like that. It couldn't be more true.

Thanks for sharing it with us.

Love and Blessings,
Pat Ferguson



At 01:15 PM 4/4/05, you wrote:
>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