Your Resentment and Impatience Puts A Stumbling Block Before Others
February 20.
Let us not therefore judge one another any more:
but judge this rather, that no man put a
stumbling-block, or an occasion to fall,
in his brother's way.
ROMANS 14, verse 13.
Them that were entering in,
ye hindered.
LUKE 11, verse 52.
My mind was ruffled with small cares today,
And I said pettish words, and did not keep
Long-suffering patience well, and now how deep
My trouble for this sin! in vain I weep
For foolish words I never can unsay.
H. S. SUTTON.
A vexation arises, and our expressions of impatience
hinder others from taking it patiently.
Disappointment, ailment, or even weather depresses
us; and our look or tone of depression hinders
others from maintaining a cheerful and thankful spirit.
We say an unkind thing, and another is hindered in
learning the holy lesson of charity that thinketh no evil.
We say a provoking thing, and our sister or brother
is hindered in that day's effort to be meek. How sadly,
too, we may hinder without word or act! For wrong
feeling is more infectious than wrong doing; especially
the various phases of ill temper,--gloominess,
touchiness, discontent, irritability,--do we not know
how catching these are?
F. R. HAVERGAL.
Let us not therefore judge one another any more:
but judge this rather, that no man put a
stumbling-block, or an occasion to fall,
in his brother's way.
ROMANS 14, verse 13.
Them that were entering in,
ye hindered.
LUKE 11, verse 52.
My mind was ruffled with small cares today,
And I said pettish words, and did not keep
Long-suffering patience well, and now how deep
My trouble for this sin! in vain I weep
For foolish words I never can unsay.
H. S. SUTTON.
A vexation arises, and our expressions of impatience
hinder others from taking it patiently.
Disappointment, ailment, or even weather depresses
us; and our look or tone of depression hinders
others from maintaining a cheerful and thankful spirit.
We say an unkind thing, and another is hindered in
learning the holy lesson of charity that thinketh no evil.
We say a provoking thing, and our sister or brother
is hindered in that day's effort to be meek. How sadly,
too, we may hinder without word or act! For wrong
feeling is more infectious than wrong doing; especially
the various phases of ill temper,--gloominess,
touchiness, discontent, irritability,--do we not know
how catching these are?
F. R. HAVERGAL.
