Are you surprised and wounded when others complain or attack you?

My highest motives and best actions will not prevent envy or complaints. My conduct should be above reproach. I should not seek praise. I should take nothing to myself but what the Lord gives me.

Do I boldly stand for God and try to serve Him faithfully? Do I prayerfully prepare for opposition and determine to carry on humbly in God’s strength? We cannot serve God and be unduly concerned for the opinions of those who do not love Him.

Is there someone over whose success you have become jealous? Have you perhaps expressed your envy in the form of complaints? Will you take that attitude to the Lord and ask Him to forgive you and deliver you from it?

Lord, please forgive me and deliver me from evil!