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One thing that's helped to clear
a lot of things out of me when my having to
endure was caused by some person is this:
"Every person has a right to be remembered for
the best things he or she ever did."
Beverlee and I were talking about "spin doctors"
a couple of days ago. Washington is loaded with
them. Spin doctors are paid to always try to
spin whatever comes along so that the person or
administration or political party they work for
looks good. Some of the better ones can take the
most negative information and spin it so much
that their person looks like an angel.
And Beverlee and I decided, "Yeah, that's what
we Christians are, without our even knowing it;
we're spiritual spin doctors!" We walk daily
between good and bad; whether events,
situations, circumstances, or persons that God
puts into our lives. And we have the ability to
spin our thoughts and spirit toward the bad or
toward the good. The decision is ours. We are
our own spin doctors, spinning information
toward ourselves. And the way we spin all the
things that enter our lives determines how we
are going to respond to them and how our life is
going to be affected by them.
The Bible doesn't call us spin doctors, but it
does tell us how we are to spin our thoughts
toward good: "Finally, brethren, whatsoever
things are true, whatsoever things are honest,
whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things
are pure, whatsoever things are lovely,
whatsoever things are of good report; if there
be any virtue, and if there be any praise,
think on these things" {Philippians 4:8).
If it is in keeping with Scripture, and I
absolutely believe it is, that every person has
a right to be remembered for the best things he
or she every did, then it is equally in keeping
with Scripture that we have a responsibility
toward God to remember every person He puts into
our lives for the best things he or she ever
did—regardless of what pain they may have caused
us.
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