under attack

Last night I was posting in the various forums I belong to praying and asking the Lord to guide me in my answers. later I checked them again and found people thanking me and I felt funny because although God used me to post these things it was still God speaking to them and not me. I asked God to keep me from thinking about what a great job I was doing and to remember that is was Him and not me that did the work.

Today I find myself under attack by other christians who either misunderstood me or who questioned my beliefs. I felt sad and wanted to get angry but forced myself to allow God to speak thru me.

It makes me wonder if somehow the two are related. Was it God showing me the error of my ways or was it the devil who was mad because I refused to become proud over what others had said?

I have to admit that having had a very rough life and a hard time of it that sometimes I feel impatient towards others who have it easier and softer than me and think if I can do it why can't they? But then I remember that we are not to compare ourselves to others but to ourselves and God. With that in mind I realise that I have no right to judge those that really are weaker than I because God only gives each of us what we can handle. and also that we are all members of the same body so just because I am a hand and not a eye I have no right to tell the eye that I do not need it. We all have special places in Gods heart and HE is the one who makes and shapes us and none of us have the right to say to the other pieces of pottery why has God made you so.