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Friday... But do we know the whole story?


Friday... But do we know the whole story?

It is so easy for us to have an opinion even when we don't know the whole story. That has been happening a lot lately. We criticize people because they wear or don't wear a mask, or they have or haven't taken the shot. But do we know the whole story. Do we stop and ask before criticizing?

Psalm 75:4-7 (NLT) says, "I warned the proud, 'Stop your boasting!' I told the wicked, 'Don't raise your fists! Don't raise your fists in defiance at the heavens or speak such arrogance.' For no one on earth - from east or west, or even from the wilderness - should raise a defiant fist. It is God alone who judges: he decides who will rise and who will fall." But we always have an opinion and we want to share it even if we don't know the whole story.

Proverbs 15:28 says, "The heart of the godly thinks carefully before speaking; the mouth of the wicked overflows with evil words." It is so easy to have an opinion even if we don't know the whole story.

Acts 11:2 in the New Testament says, "But when Peter arrived back in Jerusalem, the Jewish believers criticized him." We too many times are good at criticizing before we've heard the whole story, aren't we? Our know it all pride comes out in our criticizing. Verse 4 says, "Then Peter told them exactly what happened." And then verse 18 says, "When the others heard this, they began praising God." They now knew the whole story. "They said, 'We can see that God has also given the Gentiles the privilege of repenting of their sins and receiving eternal life."

I wonder what would happen if we would stop having a prideful opinion before we've heard the whole story. Many, even Christians, are so critical about what is happening all around, even critical of God when we haven't heard the whole story yet. I trust God to have the answer. I trust God to know what He is doing and I trust Him more than I do me because He knows the whole story. And if we do that there will be a lot more praising than criticizing. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning


 

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