Under Attack

Have you ever felt under attack? I'm not talking about physical attack I'm talking about personal attack. I have been in situations where I have felt that someone was attacking my character as a person, as a woman, as a wife and many times as a mother. Am I the only one who has ever felt like that? I seriously doubt that I am.

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I would love to say that when this happens to me I begin to pray and ask for strength. I would love to say that I handle myself in the utmost way and I'm the better person and behave like Christ would in the same situation. But, I don't. Many times, most times, all the time when this happens I get fired up. My toes begin to curl, my ears start to burn, I start wringing my hands, my mouth begins to throw out words that I am completely unable to control, and truth be told steam begins to billow out of my ears! I get so angry that my voice shakes, I start to sweat and I get such an adrenalin rush that I feel like I could run a marathon.

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After everything is all said and done I replay the "battle" in my mind over and over. I critique everything I said, everything they said play by play. I just have a hard time letting it go. My feelings are hurt, I'm angry, I'm offended, I'm just, well, every emotion that you could possibly have I guess.

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So, I'm sitting here today thinking how should you react to being under attack. David tells us how he handled just this very thing in Psalm 27:1-3 "The LORD is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life of whom shall I be afraid? When evil men advance against me to devour my flesh, when my enemies and my foes attack me, they will stumble and fall. Though an army besiege me, my heart will not fear; though war break out against me, even then will I be confident." (NIV) I'm beginning to think that I will memorize these verses so that when I feel under attack, I can bring out the real ammo...not my words but HIS words!