by Joyce Meyer - posted
June 15, 2013
But they will have to give an account to Him Who is
ready to judge and pass sentence on the living and the dead. —1
Peter 4:5
I once had an employer who took advantage of me. He
required me to work so many hours that it kept me from spending proper time
with my family. I was worn out and never had time for myself. He never showed
appreciation and no matter what I did he always expected something more. If I
even mildly indicated that I might not be able to comply with one of his
requests, his anger would start to surface, and I would cave in and agree to do
what he had asked of me.
As I was praying about the situation one day and
moaning to God about how unfair it was, He said, "What your boss is doing
is wrong, but you not confronting him is just as wrong." This was hard for
me to hear. Like most people I wanted to blame someone else for my lack of
courage. Had I not been a people-pleaser and had I not been afraid, I would
have saved myself about five years of being so stressed that it eventually made
me very sick. My boss wasn't my problem; I was my problem.
It is important to realize that God has given you
authority first and foremost over your own life. If you don't accept and
exercise that authority, you may spend your life blaming others for things you
should be doing something about. You should make your own decisions according
to what you believe God's will is for you.
On Judgment Day God will not ask anyone else to
give an account of your life; He will ask only you (See Matthew 12:36 and 1
Peter 4:5)! What if Jesus asks you on Judgment Day why you never got around to
fulfilling His call on your life? Are you going to tell Him people took
advantage of you and you just couldn't do anything about it? Are you going to
tell Him you were so busy pleasing people you just never got around to pleasing
Him? If you do offer those types of excuses, do you really believe they will be
acceptable?
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