Daily Reflections, Thursday, January 31, 2008

Today's Scripture: Proverbs 10:16

Morgan doesn't know what to think. She recently got a promotion and while she is excited about her new position, other co-workers aren't too happy. One man shows his resentment toward Morgan by saying sarcastic things to her whenever she is around.

Morgan read recently about King David and how he faced a hostile environment and how God used that time to mold and shape him into what God wanted him to be. David felt this hostility between the time of his anointing as the future king of Israel and his enthronement to that office.

Often men would falsely accuse him of seeking to undermine the first king, Saul, and therefore the nation. This was despite the fact that his own actions in sparing Saul's life proved otherwise.

Do you feel this way? Perhaps you are in a situation at work where you face resentment, but you don't even know what you've done to deserve this type of treatment.

Maybe someone is giving you a hard time or he or she is being nice to your face but saying bad things about you to your boss. This doesn't give us license to be rude or mean to others, but it does tell us that sometimes other people aren't going to understand why we do what we do. This truth helped Morgan and it can help you today as well.

Today's Quote:  The world is full of willing people. Some willing to work; the rest willing to let them. —Robert Frost