I used to hate it when my first boss at my teaching gig would use the little foxes analogy. It was meant to make us feel guilty when we talked badly about him. He was insecure and that was his way of making us feel bad. I now look at the scripture as a lifeline and realize that if I am going to be continually growing in the Lord I must keep my words from speaking gossip. If there is something I need to change I will and if not I will just stay silent.
I woke up this morning stressed. I felt bad the stupid things I said in the last days and angry at the events that had occurred to me.
But then I look at my life and all the good that has happened to me just this summer and fall.
I am succeeding with this classroom of children, I am doing well in childrens church and thriving, I was asked to come back to sing, I now have a title in Whole Brain and I am finished up two sessions of good fitness programs today.
Isaiah 6:6-8 New Living Translation (NLT)
6 Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal he had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. 7 He touched my lips with it and said, “See, this coal has touched your lips. Now your guilt is removed, and your sins are forgiven.”
8 Then I heard the Lord asking, “Whom should I send as a messenger to this people? Who will go for us?”
I said, “Here I am. Send me.”
Song of Solomon 2:15 King James Version (KJV)
15 Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
Again even if I feel unworthy I know through Christ I am worthy. I can't control others and again all I can do is control what happens to me.
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