God bless!

      Have you ever heard that expression “don’t kill the messenger”? I’m sure you have but how many of us have really taken time to review our reaction once the message is delivered? I can’t speak for others but usually my reaction to the messenger is a bit sour J (when it’s a bad message that is). It may not have been that persons message but in my mind I say “it was that person’s mouth!”. Now this works both ways, what would your reaction be if someone brought you a message that you won a great sum of money? Would you not hug that person and celebrate with them? Of course we would! Now why am I talking about this today? It’s simple, in the scriptures we see many men and women of God that were beaten and abused due to their call, they did what they were instructed to do but for some reason people didn’t deal directly with the person sending the message but rather exhausted their frustration on the messenger.  This is just wrong! Many of us in life still carry this same reaction to the messengers in life, we listen to those that bring us “good” news but what about those that bring us correction or are simply passing a message along? Speaking from a parents perspective I can tell you my kids never want to hear me correct them but they sure do enjoy the blessings I share with them. Are we the same way with God? Do we pick and choose what we want to hear from Him? Do we search for a place and people that only will share “good” news with us but not news that’s “good” for us. As a parent we never want to harm our kids and a great deal of the things we share with them is correction, but don’t we do it because we want to see them excel? Don’t we bring correction so there is harmony and growth in their lives? Don’t we share things with them so they don’t have to go through what we’ve gone through? God does the same with us, He simply wants to guide us and bless us but we can’t “choose” only what we want to hear because that isn’t wisdom but rather being being spoiled. Now God has lifted men and women in our lives to bring us messages and our job is to receive and digest the message whether it is sweet our sour to our ears. Remember don’t kill this messenger!

Pastor Joell A. Perez