Wednesday - June 8, 2016

Woodlawn Family Bible Study

WEDNESDAY


BIBLE READING:  Philippians 2:12, Luke23:34

MAIN IDEA:           
“Behavioral Rules/Boundaries”


DISCUSSION
A rule is an expectation of how something should turn out or how someone should think or behave. The rules we have for other people’s behavior and for our own behavior, will to a large degree determine how we feel.  Why?  Because some rules are enforceable and some are not. When you have too many unenforceable rules or try too hard to enforce the ones you have, you create a problem.  Trying to enforce only those things which you can control will help your life go more smoothly. An unenforceable rule is an expectation that you have that you can’t make happen.  An unenforceable rule is one where you do not have the power to make things turn out the way you want them to.  When you try to enforce an unenforceable rule you become angry, bitter, despondent, and helpless. Trying to force something you cannot control is an exercise in frustration.  The more unenforceable rules you have, the greater likelihood you will feel agitated or disappointed.  The harder we try to enforce something, we cannot control the worse we feel.  If you cling to one unenforceable rule, you leave yourself open to suffer every single time the rule is broken.  Almost every circumstance in which you feel significant emotional pain, you are trying to enforce unenforceable rules.  Yes there is hope.  Each of us can learn to change rules.  We can reclaim our power.  

We can learn to forgive!

APPLICATION
Do we have to be asked to forgive, before we forgive someone?

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