Thursday's Deep Thought - Take the High Road!

Have you ever wondered why you have to be the "better person"? Why you have to always "take the high road"? This morning I foolishly engaged in "heated fellowship" with someone I love dearly. How it came to that, I really don't know. Something was done improperly. I politely asked that it not happen again. Ask and you shall receive, right. We owe it to our friends to always speak truth, right? I was told that it was an honest mistake, which I understood, but by that time I guess I had offended my friend deeply. Because before I knew what was happening voices were raised and I was glowering like Andrea the Angry.

Now, I will be the first to admit that we are responsible for our own actions, so I can't say that I was provoke. To take from my recent interview with Inspirational Speaker, Business Coach, Author and Entrepreneur Ken Brown, “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you respond to it." That's Ken's mantra and invoked today's deep thought.

Just think where we'd be had Jesus gotten so angry on the day of his crucifixion, when he was beaten and flogged, that he decided angrily, "Forget that! I'm not gonna take this anymore. I don't deserved this!" Afterall, He'd chosen to bear the guilt of the our sins. He didn't have to do it, but He did. He died so that we may live. So why not live in harmony?

I didn't deserve to be spoken to the way that I was spoken to, but did I really have to go there just because someone else went there? If Jesus can cry out, "Father! Into your hands I commit my spirit!" surely I can cry out, "Father! Out of my heart and into your hands I commit this offense!"

So if you have indeed ever wondered why you have to be the "better person" or why you have to always "take the high road," the answer is clear if you are a child of God: Jesus died for you to have the opportunity to be the better person and for that you should be grateful; and you should take the high road because Jesus's message that fateful day is of the pursuit of holiness that can only be reached by following His example - the perfect example. 

So put your pride aside and prepare for a glorious ride...down the high road!