This week, God has been teaching me about yielding my rights to Him. I have come to learn that holding onto rights was and is the main cause of a lot of my personal frustration. This was especially true when my expectations were high, and reality was low. The distance between those two was disappointment. Then disappointment quickly turned into bitterness or discouragement. And it all started with what I thought were my rights. Pride was the root evil here.
The opposite of pride is humility, and the first step is to relinquish the rights that pride tells you that you deserve. A common one that comes to mind is the “right to get the last word in,” or even the “right to be right.” Inner turmoil, bitterness, discouragement, and contention are now warning signals that I am probably holding onto a right I think I deserve to have. But, as it says in Proverbs 29:23, “A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.” I thank God for this lesson He is gently teaching me! We have no right in and of ourselves to His love and mercy, but because of who He is and what Jesus did for us, He gives us that love and mercy. Praise God!~Chrysendrea