Vindicated

What a powerful word that God can describe His work in our lives. It is showing proof that we can trust in Him through all the trial He puts us through.

There was a time in my life when a slow vehicle would be in the way of my self-righteousness. My instant gratification for myself would be to curse that person as I held them in contempt... they weren't worthy of me going around them- especially if they were in the fast lane. But the only gratification I got was a shameful feeling- being that of me slapping myself in the face because of whom I had to go around... realizing that it was just an old lady just trying to stay on the road.

This happened time after time. And time after time I reaped the same conviction of shame from the finger of God. But, low and behold, after repetitive conditioning of this faith-building trial, I have graduated to humbleness before the Lord. I now give the benefit of the doubt (or shall I say 'Lord'?) when ever I come upon another co-habitant of this world.

Ya see? My fleshly desires to cast down other people as reinforced or directed by the enemy and that what I did. I had sown injustice and reaped conviction of the Lord... sowing the wrong kind of seeds.

Sowing seeds is what we do, its actually begins by God- He is the one actually sowing a seed in us so that we may learn. When we aren't getting Him message, He just doesn't give up on us- He keeps putting us through that faith-building trial until we get it.

God's vindication can only happen if we trust and believe in His ways- the ways that He desires for us to handle any situation that happens in our lives. So instead of listening to the twisting thorn that is in our flesh that produces the wrong fruit, we can resist the enemy and he will depart from us. If we be still and know that He is God, we can be patient and humble in His righteousness, then, we can be vindicated- vs. satan, before God and by God.

The victory is already won if we think about it.