Sin and lashing out…

I find it amazing the way we let things take over our lives. Sin is that very thing that makes us turn in on ourselves and look at things in a way that God did not intend for them to be. Over the past 2 days I have had to reload my laptop twice. Once did not seem to be enough, so I found myself doing it again. I always find this an interesting task, for which I sit at the laptop and answer questions and change settings. It is very taxing and very exciting brain work. Not really.
In the midst if this reloading the stresses of not getting done what needs to get done start to take over along with the mundaneness of simply reloading the laptop twice. This then boils over to seeing those around us doing the slightest little thing and we explode. Has this ever happened to you? Have you ever been doing something you really wished you did not have to do, and find yourself letting the stresses of the moment pile up until the slightest little thing sets you off, on something that did not deserve the set off. This is really what we call sin.
This sin is turning in on ourselves and looking at the stresses in our lives and trying to handle them all ourselves. It is when we think we can handle these things by ourselves that we get into real trouble. We look to ourselves to find the solution, and that is where we discover we can not do this and then we react. Each of us reacts differently, but we need to lash out beyond ourselves in some manner, and it is usually those that we love that get caught up in the middle of that. They do not deserve the lashing that comes to them, but they are the one that is chosen by us to receive that which we can not handle at that time. Why does this happen? Or does this not happen to you and this is something that is special for me? I do not believe that I am the only one who takes things out on the wrong people, there are hundreds of not thousands of titles written on this.
But you see the real issue is, is there ever anyone that deserves to be lashed out at? We are to love everyone, just as Jesus loved us, and he gives us the strength and power to do whatever has been put in front of us. It is sin that actually hurts in this life, not the person that hurts us. And really in the end if a lashing is necessary what really does it help? I know after I have given someone a bunch of stuff from my pent up anger they do not deserve, I feel worse than I did before carrying around all of that junk, and the person who got it is wondering why did this pile up in my lap. God gives us a way to deal with all of life. He is ready and willing to take everything from you. Give Him complete control over everything and do not let the stress effect you, because Gid has already handled the situation. Just as Paul said, “Actually, I don’t have a sense of needing anything personally. I’ve learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances. I’m just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I’ve found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty. Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am.” Know who you are in Christ and love everyone around you.