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
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