HAVE YOU BEEN BETRAYED? – TAKE NOTE: ODM DAILY
‘My best friend, the one I trusted completely…has turned against me.’ Psalm 41:9 NLT. HAVE YOU BEEN BETRAYED? – TAKE NOTE: ODM DAILY
HAVE YOU BEEN BETRAYED? – TAKE NOTE: ODM DAILY
NOT ONLY must we leave room for unexpected disappointments and unknown variables in life, we must realise that inevitably we’Il be betrayed and hurt by other people. Perhaps they deceived us into believing they were trustworthy, or they began sincerely and became infected with the viruses of jealousy and greed. In either case, you’ll face betrayal at some point along the way.
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Even the psalmist David wrote: “My best friend, the one I trusted completely, the one who shared my food, has turned against me. And included in the list of adversities Paul suffered in his ministry, are false brethren’ (2 Corinthiansn 11:26 KJV). Yes, as one author writes, ‘if you live long enough, you will discover how fickle and selfish the numan heart can be.’
HAVE YOU BEEN BETRAYED? – TAKE NOTE: ODM DAILY
And its often the people we love most and trust implicitly who have the greatest power to betray us. So what can we do? We must deal with the hurt and anger, without allowing either one to blind us to the long-range consequences of bitterness. And don’t be deterred from your lifes goals or other relationships when it happens. Like a child who has learned to walk and gets tripped up by a bully, get back on your feet and continue your journey.
HAVE YOU BEEN BETRAYED? – TAKE NOTE: ODM DAILY
You’ll be a little sore and a bit bruised at first, but the scabs will heal, and you’ll be stronger for having survived the fall. After lamenting about his friend who betrayed him, David said to God, ‘I know you are pleased with me, for you have not let my enemies triumph over me. You have preserved my life’ (Psalm 41:11-12 NLT). That’s the winning attitude!
Even at all betrayal, odds, prons and cons of life, you can still enjoy a very amazing and well rewarded relationship! READ BELOW
BE FLEXIBLE
Let each of you look out not only for his own interests, but also for the interests of others.’ Philippians 2:4 NKJV
WHEN IT Comes to the truth, you should be unbending. But when it comes to relationships, you must learn to be flexible. If you always need to be ‘right’ and make the other person ‘wrong’, you’ll never enjoy stable, long-lasting relationships.
One author writes: ‘We will not last together because we were never wrong. We will last because when we were wrong, we found the invincible will to correct the wrong and the grace to endure whatever it took to survive it together. Our families are never perfect, but that doesn’t mean we cannot find a way to make it across the tumultuous seas onto the shores of love and life.
Coming from backgrounds with different traditions and conflicting ideas, we bring baggage and unrealistic expectations to our relationships whether we are conscious of it or not.’ So what should you do? He continues: “Create in yourself an openness to change and an understanding that much correction will be needed for what you will face together.
HAVE YOU BEEN BETRAYED? – TAKE NOTE: ODM DAILY
Make this attitude your charter for how you will operate as a couple. Always be willing to recalibrate your relationship to ensure that decisions made at one stage of life now fit the growth and maturity of the present.’ Do you know what the biggest problem in our relationships is? Selfishness! We want to have things our own way. But that’s not the scriptural way.
The Bible says, ‘Let each of you look out not only for his or her own interests, but also for the interests of others.” When you live with that kind of mind-set, you’ll enjoy rich, rewarding relationships.
HAVE YOU BEEN BETRAYED? – TAKE NOTE: ODM DAILY
