For most, if not all of us we become a bit peeved when someone belts out a command at us without those magic words ("Please/Thank you"). It doesn't matter how meek or humble you are. If someone walks up to you and demands that you execute a specific behavior, it tends to wake up that sleeping beast inside of you. Your hair stands on end, the veins in your forehead pulse, and the body goes into pounce mode. The boss, the spouse, the best friend- they all feel the wrath if anyone is to command you to do anything, especially if they cherry top their sentence with the word "NOW".
Ironically though, as defensive as I get when I think someone is trying to control me, I give people the remote to my life more often than I think. When I allow someone's statement to activate my hot button, and disrupt my peace or contentment I forfeit the authority God has given me.
For example, I know that I am wonderfully made. I know I am special, and because of this I love and accept me for who I am. This view did not come naturally. I had to program myself to believe this, and consequently I have a peace within me.
Now here comes Sally who unfortunately has not learned the practice of closing the mouth if there is nothing good to say, " Hey girl, where are you going with all that weight?"
Operation Shut down
In a matter of minutes she now holds the remote, and has pressed a hot button that disrupts the peace I had about loving me. My mode of thinking changes, and the clothes in which I once felt like a Diva, now make me feel like a dumpling. Overnight, everything is suddenly too tight, and I start seeing every other female as more beautiful or sexier than I am.
For me it was a physical appearance, for others it may be a comment about an inability to land a promotion, or achieve a goal. We are at peace, then we hand over the remote allowing someone to activate that hot button.
Often we say that something or someone gets on our last nerve, but that is an occurrence that we allow.
Although we cannot control the actions of others, we choose the extent to which these circumstance rob us of our peace.
Anonymous Writer
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