Don't let that dude annoy you...

Hi!

Suffering from 'time lag' due to sleepover(s), so I didn't have enough strength to type.

Anyway, the pastor in church today told us about the ways the devil could take away our relationship with God just by stealing our joy. And what is one of the easiest ways of stealing our joy?

Irritation.

The sneaky salesman who sold you something worth over your budget under your nose.
The annoying guy who sits behind you in class and temporarily steals a pencil or two from your desk.
The lying boss who gets all the credit for that major million dollar project that you did for him for the past week with no sleep.

They're all forms of irritation that are purposely set there in your life to distract you from God and kill of a great portion of joy from you. These irritations try to make you think that the only way to solve the problem is by using methods of man, like punching that guy or commiting suicide, instead of relying on God for an answer, which could come to you in the form of an impossible 'don't-hurt-the-man,-just-bless-him.-I'll-do-the-fighting' format. Don't fall in for the irritations, cause even if the guy irritates you till you feel like taking out that brass knuckles in your pocket, getting angry over it just destroys both parties. This is a fact that has been scientifically proven; anger kept inside a person for a long period of time can causes quicker aging, high blood pressure in due time, headaches and other synthoms that I could list down if only I could find the list in my complexly organised shelf. So instead of getting fed up with the person or situation that is giving you great distress and planning on a revenge tatic on him/her/it, just bless the guy and tell God that you trust that He knows whatever unjustice had been done to you and that as The Judge of Life, He knows what measures to take on that guy. Although it may not appear to be working instantly when you want it to happen, just keep having faith that God is always beside you and He saw what happened. God works in ways you cannot see, so you never know what He's got in store for you around the corner. Who knows, maybe the fact that you are not responding to the misery the way that your enemy wanted you to respond itself may make the dude frustrated, thus making his blood boil twice as much as how much he wanted yours to.

God bless you!