Annoyed

I was annoyed at some people today. I felt that what I said was glossed over without even an "okay, thanks". Proper communications protocols was not followed, I did not get an ACK. It bothered me for a while. I grumbled about it for a while. It was nothing, really, yet it still bothered me.

First, they didn't do anything to deserve me getting annoyed, and second, I was almost certainly trying to manufacture some kind of contribution to selfishly glorify myself, rather than say something for their benefit. So great, I was annoyed for no good reason, it was my own fault, and it had nothing to do with glorifying God at all. Happy day. I guess the first step to being less of an idiot is to recognize you're one, and then ask Jesus to help you.

But it did get me thinking, so there is some silver lining (yes, ME thinking is not always a good thing, but in this case maybe it is):

If I felt this way about something SO trivial, how did Jesus' disciples feel when they went to share the gospel and were persecuted? How do our brothers and sisters in China, Pakistan, Iran, India, etc, feel today? How did/does JESUS feel when he was rejected? These guys all had something IMPORTANT to say, NOT for themselves, and faced, or are currently facing, DEATH for it.

Check this out (we are indeed spoiled in America -- I forget much of the world is NOT so tolerant ):

http://www.christianpersecution.info/

Talk about putting things in proper perspective.