Just Ask Victor!

In Acts 6:1-7, Peter had every right to give the murmurers a good old-fashioned tongue-lashing., but Peter chose to not blame anyone who was murmuring. He instead focused in on the problem!

I have been thinking a lot lately about cause and effect.

So many of us want to know why. What is the cause! Why do people insist on talking bad about me? Now, let me say that there is nothing wrong with wanting to know why people say bad things about us, but that is not the primary issue. The primary issue is the effect that the murmuring is having on us. Why people say bad things about us is less important than who we are becoming as a result of the bad things that are being said about us.

Is growth occurring in your spiritual life as you live above the murmurings of others?

We should not blame … We should not grow bitter, but instead we should grow better and that choice is up to you. There is no need to blame the murmurer. Just work at fixing the problem and go to that next level spiritually. We must take the bricks that others throw at us and use them to build a stepping-stone to that next level of Godly living.

Holocaust survivor, Victor Frankl, said it this way, “Everything can be taken from a man, but one thing: the choice of attitude in any given set of circumstances.”