Those Pesky Flies!

It is really hilarious how one little pesky fly in the house can cause a person to go from being an adult professional to a raving lunatic. Running around jumping on chairs with a rolled up piece of paper swatting furniture, hitting the walls, even slapping  peoples faces in hopes to squish the elusive fly. How can one fly be EVERYWHERE?? It always seems to be one step of ahead and can I even add that I think it taunts and laughs at how slow we are. I have thought that I had caught a fly once just to realize that it had survived and landed on my head. That is when you just get the can of raid out and proceed to fumigate the whole house!

Little aggravations and frustrations can really get you. Just like the fly it comes in our space while we were minding our own business and proceeds to steal our peace. It shows up and it will not relent. Before we know it our emotions are getting a little out of control and we start showing our "character" to everyone. We start running here and there and anger starts showing and before we realize it our mouth is in bad need of extermination!

Jeremiah 17:18 and Psalm 1:3 both instruct us to be like trees firmly planted. First Peter 5:8-9 teaches us to be well-balanced and self-controlled in order to keep Satan from getting the best of us. As Christ followers we are to be rooted, established, strong, immovable and determined. Philippians 1:28 tells us to be constantly fearless when problems comes against us. Psalm 94:13 says God wants to give us power to stay calm in adversity. All of these scriptures are referring to being stable in our emotional life.

The answer here is preparation! Keep the door closed to the enemy getting in to steal your peace and always keep a good fly swatter handy. Everyday there is an opportunity for us to get upset or to be blind sided by an issue BUT if you are prepared you can ACT and not REACT and that is the key to successfully keeping those pesky flies in your life at bay.

Adjust That Crown!

Jonna