Arrows and Sweet Confirmation

Twice in about a two year span of time, I have been referred to, or my words have been referred to, as "sharp arrows" and "flaming arrows" in one way or another by two of my loved ones.  Even though my name was not specifically mentioned, they were done on a more public scale than I believe should have been done for that matter and they also used scripture to back-up their views of me at the time.  As one can imagine, my responses to such references were not that of a positive nature, but infact, that of a negative one.

Now it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that they were using scripture from Psalms written by David.  And while I was very aware as to how many of those verses referrenced arrows, I became more and more pressed by God to read several of those passages recently.  However, with the knowledge of these verses the desire to read these verses was not high on my priority list.  Mainly, I didn't want to re-hash bitter feelings about the subject and put salt on any of my open wounds, but last week I decided to listen to God's little urgings anyways.

I began reading and like I had thought I would, I read the expected words enemy, wicked, lies, deceit and so on and so forth.  I became a bit discouraged and a little angry and well a little sad too as I read.  First of all, being referred to by these loved ones as their enemies was a hard pill to swallow as I have never thought of them as such.  While feelings of them at one time or another were that of some negative ones with hurt feelings.  And sure sometimes I had thoughts that they just plane got on my nerves too, I never thought of them as my enemy and it was hard to believe that they thought that of me.  Secondly, David used arrows to describe the words of the wicked and that they were words of lies and deceit.  This struck me as I didn't believe that my words were that of lies and deceit; and who were they to believe solely that my words were?  Should I say the same of them just because I may disagree with what they say?  Never once did I say anything that I believed were lies or of deceit and it hurts me that they have believe so of me.  And besides, David was referring to people who wanted to destroy him and I can most certainly assure you that I have had NO such ill intent towards these two individuals.  Thirdly, as I am very much aware of the fact that I am an individual who often speaks her mind when she deems fit to do so; and yes, occassionally, I may use a few fighting words, I have never hid behind scripture to verbally attack someone and/or share my opinions of them as was done to me in one of these instances.

So as I continued to read these scriptures, I became more and more discouraged.  As I had about all I could take.  I was about to close my Bible when I heard a little voice inside say "Keep going."  With that I decided to press on a bit more and I kept reading.  As I did so, I discovered another verse that brought such sweet confirmation of and to my life.

Even though it didn't entirely relate to the situation at hand; it did render more confirmation on something that I believe God has called Scot and I to do, and where our family is spiritually and physically at this time.  Who knew that I could find some positives in something negative.  Okay, well may be God did!