#518 – Life and Purpose

To act on impulse is rarely right and to speak in anger never resolves the conflict. The louder you say it, the less you will be heard, because feeling has overridden faith and your fuel is emotion.

A right to do or say something is far from the permission to do it. Simply because you feel a way, does not make it real nor justified. Feelings are temporary, but principles can last a lifetime.

Under the immense stresses of life, those that are chained to their emotions are slaves and those that can contain them are masters. You have been made the head and not the tail.

At the appropriate time to mourn, be sure to mourn. When it is time to show remorse, be certain to repent. Take this time and take no more, because life and purpose, still have need of you.

Deuteronomy 28:13-14
And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God…

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