25/04/2025
LET THE COCKROACH GO
Look at this hypothetical situation. There is a cockroach on your glass table and you happened to have a hammer π¨ in your hand. Do you smash π₯ it with the hammer? Off course not! STRIKING with YOUR HAMMER will get you the desired outcome - a dead cockroach πͺ³. But it will also give you more than you asked for - A shattered glass table. Remember that the table was not part of the quarrel In the first place. So what do you do? You let go of STRIKING the cockroach on the GLASS TABLE and use a SOFTER APPROACH.
Sometimes, you have to stay calm, talk soft or let go. Itβs not called GIVING UP; itβs called GROWING UP!!
Ego is a silent killer. It looks like strength, but it is weakness in disguise. It says, βI wonβt bow.β
Even when conscience is saying; βLet it go.βEgo will advance well crafted arguments to win. But what kind of victory would that be? Hmmm!!
Friend; When ego wins, Everybody loses. It is possible to win yet it is a loss (in disguise). For example : You can win the argument and still lose the marriage. And in the end, you will have children raised in a broken home with itβs terrible side effects. So I often ask disputing couples: βdo you want to be right or you want to be married?β You hardly can have both.
There are times that even if you WIN, you have still LOST. That is why Godβs word says in Ecclesiastes 10:4, NIV;
βIf a RULERβS ANGER rises against you, do not leave your post; calmness can lay great offenses to rest.β
The NLT says;
βIf your BOSS is angry at you, donβt quit! A quiet spirit can overcome even great mistakes.β
There are battles you cannot win even if it looks like you have won. He that has an ear, let him hear what the scriptures are saying. Lord, help me!!