Choosing Honor When I Feel Dishonored - Encouragement for Today - January 21, 2021

I remember one day when I got an email that started, "Shame on you..."

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January 21, 2021 Choosing Honor When I Feel Dishonored LYSA TERKEURST Lee en español "Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers his righteousness on you." Hosea 10:12 (NIV)  I remember one day when I got an email that started, "Shame on you." Lovely. And of course, it came on the same day I had some technical issues messing with my workday along with a little attitude situation involving a family member. But instead of firing off the initial email response my flesh wanted to send, I stopped and lifted up a simple and honest prayer: What is the deal, Jesus? Why do I always seem to have little pieces of brokenness in my life every day? It's so frustrating. I need Your perspective on the brokenness, or I need a break from it. There was no answer. No instant verse. Nothing. Until the next morning. With a tired heart, I sat once again at my farm table and opened up my tattered and worn Truth Book. And there, in the book of Hosea, God had wisdom my heart desperately needed. Wisdom I want us to break down together today: "Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers his righteousness on you" (Hosea 10:12). Sow righteousness for yourselves … In other words, we must sow righteousness into our lives — right choices that honor God. We must make these choices. Choose to honor Him in the midst of it all. Even when we are dishonored, honor Him still. Reap the fruit of unfailing love … There will be fruit in the midst of every choice that honors God. It will be the fruit of God's unfailing love. Remember, Romans 8 teaches us that nothing shall separate us from the love of God. Yet, that is Satan's great tactic — to get us entangled in things that make us forget or doubt God's unfailing love.   CONTINUE READING →

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