An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. “A fight is going on inside me,” he said to the boy.
“It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil – he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.”
He continued, “The other is good – he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you – and inside every other person, too.”
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, “Which wolf will win?”
The old Cherokee simply replied, “The one you feed.”
This story is a great lesson we can take with us, IF WE CHOOSE! I want you to think about something, when we have a bad day, guess which wolf we are feeding! We can sit around and get angry, upset, frustrated, and what will that accomplish? Or we can take a moment to adjust our thinking and focus on the positive. We can waste our preciously short time on this Earth looking back and raging about things, people, situations we cannot control...OR we can re-focus our energies to make the most of where we are now and take positive steps forward.
Let me give you another way to think about this: Jesus was having a truly horrible day! He had already been arrested, tortured, beaten, and rejected by the Jews. In fact, He had been nailed to the cross between two criminals and the only thing they had to look forward to was death, which would not come quickly. Yet even on His WORST day, Jesus kept positive! He prayed that God would forgive those who had done all this to Him, because "they know not what they do" (Luke 23:34). Jesus also told the criminal on the cross next to Him, "today, you will be with me in Paradise" (Luke 23:43).
Which wolf will you feed?
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