Proverb 30:10 Accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty.
My wife finally had enough. “Stop apologizing, you haven’t done anything wrong.”
My default setting was guilt. I assume the role without cause or justification. It just never occurred to me that I am both my Master’s servant and his accuser. Can I break the cycle by simply believe this scripture?
The scriptures reveal the truth in many matters, but having a head knowledge of the truth is not that same thing as accessing its healing power. Belief has to be more than acknowledgement of truth it has to be a resetting of your defaults. The essence of a default setting is to render the code back to the manufacturer’s original design, removing faults that have corrupted the code.
When it comes to human emotions and habits, it is not as easy as hitting a reset button. Oh if wishing could make it so.
Philippians 2:12c … work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.
It is work and work has to be performed to get results.
James 1:22-24 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
I could start by stop accusing my Master’s servant. That would be a start.
What is your default setting?
You asked the question, “what is your default setting?” I’m not sure completely, but my first response to things is to see the other side of an issue. This may seem to others to be argumentative, but when there is controversy, it pays to remember that God is not only working with me, but with the other soul as well.
I have been taught that “every question deserves an answer” and this was a difficult one to answer—self analysis is not always accurate.
Ron, the default setting is usually found in the automated response system. It isn’t thought out, it reacts. Some people have that defensive mechanism, or negativity, or pessimism. For me it was taking fault, it kept me from having to argue, I wasn’t equipped.
Thanks, Larry. You have helped me get down the line a ways on this. My first reaction (possible default setting) is to shrug my shoulders and say “whatever”! I do NOT like controversy….ingrained deep in me is “Blessed are the peace makers”, so I stay as far away from controversy as possible…..even to my fault, no doubt. I would have made a lousy soldier….no doubt that is why God allowed me to get polio in 1956 instead of sending me to Korea. I’m so thankful HE runs my life,….I would sure mess it up if I had to do it myself.!!!! Thanks for your help!!