I Assume I Should Stop Assuming

I don't know about you but I tend to assume way too much. With that said, I won't begin to assume that you assume as well. That would be an inaccurate assumption on my part.

Well that's enough caffeine for me ...

So I have challenged myself to positive assuming -- yep, I'm serious. I mean it. 

Here's my plan:

Assume only good in others

Question all bad things I hear; don't automatically believe everything I hear.

That is what I'm going to do. If I'm going to assume anything about someone - I challenge myself to assume GOOD.

If I hear something bad about someone I must question it first -- because I've been assuming good, you see.

I have been disappointed

I have disappointed others

I learned a hard lesson years ago in the need to stop assuming.  I remember taking a group of people to a worship conference and telling them all I wanted us all to attend one workshop together. It was an incredible workshop I had attended the year before. The leader was an inspiration to me as he spoke of servant leadership. I thought it important we all share hearing him together. I assumed everyone would be inspired by his message when in fact I was told afterwards all they heard was that he said you should listen to your leader and obey. They assumed that's what I wanted them to hear so they would do all I asked of them and do it without question. I didn't even remember him saying that.

That was a painful lesson. It hurt deeply they didn't know me better than that. Yet that was an assumption on my part, wasn't it? If anything, I let them down by not stating very clearly upfront what inspired me so from that speaker. Had I done that, they might have enjoyed it more as they knew why I wanted us all there. 

Jesus was a master communicator. 

Even so, we have questioned things he said.

We have argued over his meaning in things he did.

Yet Scripture tells us it is in FAITH that we believe

I assume every one of us assumes something about something or some person every day. It seems, though, that Jesus asks that we have living and loving faith. He tells us to go in faith and trust his will to be done. Remove ourselves from the temptation of assuming and stay in the positive instead. 

Dang.

I'm such a Miss Fix-it. 

Perhaps everything is not supposed to be "fixed". 

I'm assuming that, of course ...

Do you assume or do you communicate and try to get the facts straight?

I've got my work cut out for me ...

Enjoying the journey,

Debra

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Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.

In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your path straight.

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