Get over it

“Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee: For oftentimes also thine own heart knoweth that thou thyself likewise hast cursed others.” - Ecclesiastes 7v21-22

Don’t you hate when you find out something that someone has said about you? I thought about that this week when news came out that Kyra Phillips, a CNN presenter had left her mike on when she was in the toilet and the whole world heard her call her sister-in-law a “control freak” during what was supposed to be a broadcast of a speech by President Bush. Surely her sister-in-law was upset by this offhanded remark.

Even here the word of God has some advice for this kind of a situation. To paraphrase the verse above God says, “Don’t let it bother you when you hear what someone else makes some kind of comment about you. You know in your heart of hearts that you have done the same thing yourself.”

Our pride is far too easily hurt. Hopefully Kyra and her sister-in-law will have a good laugh overt the remarks above. We can’t take this kind of thing seriously when it happens to us. This is the kind of thing Satan can use to divide and destroy relationships. If we are not careful a root of bitterness can grow and trouble you and defile many (Hebrews 12v15).

The best advice when we hear that someone has made some kind of comment about us? Usually, the best choice is to just get over it and move on.