It is, what it is

Hab. 2:15 (NIV) - "Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin till they are drunk, so that he can gaze on their naked bodies"…Now this verse speaks of a giving drink, but what about the figurative drinks we distribute... how many of us have set others up to look stupid, silly, ignorant, incompetent, or uncouth. Maybe this is not you, but you have set others up, or create a situation, position that has failure as the end result. You believed, concluded because you were anger, your idea of justice, the hurt, some personal issue, or your selfishness overruled God’s way. Yet, you did not think anything of this actions and felt justified for taking this mean-spirit course of action because it okay in man’s world, but not in the Son of Man’s Grace. Let us flip the script, and now, think of when you were on the receiving end, not the giving end, of all this. How does it feel? Do you like it? Do you feel you were treated fairly? If you are like most of us, you never ever gave it any thought, and if you did, it was after the fact. Then, we are usually too embarrassed to go to the person, give an apology, and seek forgiveness for the wrong done because we would say to ourselves “I wouldn’t”; so we do nothing as fear and unforgiveness plague us. This is the process over and over again. But in this verse it states ‘Woe to him…’ this is usually not good, and it is a warning for us to avoid this kind of action because it is never good.

What am I trying to say, I think this verse in Daniel explains it best Daniel 3: 17-18 (K21st) - If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and He will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up." See the three Hebrews men got it. They understood we should not succumb to man’s way when it is in opposition to God’s way, no matter what. We are not in a literal life or death situation, but it is a spiritual one, as we seek man’s wisdom, over God without a second thought, more likely than not all because it is easier and we are comfortable with it...It is, what it is let us to do, because we do know better. We just decide, we do not desire to do better because of a hard-heart and distorted lens we are looking through...Truth hurts but it also allow you to understand what it means to walk through the raindrops, see the distinction in the snowflakes, and the love in the sunshine because that is where God magnificent shines and his touch is felt...it is, what it is...