Hit over the head

You guys probably know by now that I can sometimes be a stubborn pain in the neck. I also can have my pity parties, or get angry with others. Yesterday I had been talking with some friends of mine. I had been a little touchy with one of them and not extremely pleased with the other. The first friend told me what I was doing wrong. They had told me before I just didn't get it I guess. Whats my point? God decided he was going to hit me over the head with one of His Biblical principles. I was looking over my Sunday school book that we are going through (I'll tell you more about that in a minute) and getting the next weeks verse written down so I can memorize it. The verse was Proverbs 21:19. As I read it, it was like "bam." No wonder the first friend was saying what they were. They might as well have been sitting in the dessert or in the middle of the woods then to be talking with me the way I had been treating them and acting. Sometimes I just need to be hit over the head with something to get my attention. It is really cool how the Lord works things out. I had read this verse before and knew what it meant. I just didn't think it applied to me because I was rarely angry with people or wanting to start fights. The Lord showed me it applies to anything that you do to make things harder on someone else.

As for the Sunday School book. The book we are going through right now is called "Managing Your Moods" from Women of Faith. This is just the girls SS class mind you. I really need this because lately I have been letting how I feel govern what I do, what I say, and how I react. I am so glad Miss Brooks choose this book. I am beginning to see how deceitful my heart really is. It wants only what will make it happy. It is completely flesh. It can be trained though. Which takes time and effort with God at the steering wheel. Do you know how hard that is? To just let go? Or how hard it is to think clearly when you have emotions swimming around in your head.

Please pray for me as I am continuing in this book. I need all the help I can get. Also if you are talking to me and I start letting my emotions take control. Please kindly stop me and remind me about what I have said here. :)