DON'T TAKE IT TO HEART

Ecclesiastes 7:21 Do not take to heart everything people say, ......

We all know that the things people say can cause a lot of trouble and hurt and it's hard to not take them to heart.  People don't always mean what they say, or say what they mean, and that goes for ourselves too. How often have we said something and it came out all wrong and we wished we'd kept our mouths shut? We didn't mean to be hurtful, the person just took it the wrong way.

It can happen to us too, when someone says something and we think they mean one thing when in actual fact it never even entered their head we'd take it that way! We can be too sensitive sometimes.😊

Proverbs 4:23 Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.

Even if they were nasty on purpose at the end of the day God has told us that He loves us and He approves of us and that is what really matters not what people think or say. So let's guard our hearts from letting offence in.

People are prone to change their minds anyway and more than likely stopped thinking about any of it five minutes after it was said, while we're still fretting over it at three in the morning, or maybe even years later! 

So if you can relate to any of that and someone has upset you, don't take it to heart but take it to the Lord and ask Him for His grace to forgive them and let it go. Likewise, if we've said something hurtful let's ask for forgiveness and then let it go too. Let's not give the enemy a foothold, but use our God given ability to guard our hearts, forgive them, and ourselves, and keep moving forward.