Why are YOU So Loud? - The Christian Online Magazine

I probably would not have answered that question, if it wasn’t posed to me by the Lord.

Let me explain, Max drew me a card in school and on the card it depicted a scene that happened in our house a couple of days before.

We now have a puppy living with us and his name is “Lucca.” He’s about a year and a ½ very energetic and constantly on the move. Well in the basement I keep some of my shoes that I want to wear for the Summer, they were high on the shelf, so I felt that they were safe there. But when we got home the other day to my surprise Lucca had shredded my leather sandals. These were my best pair of sandals. I just loved them, ‘cause they went with everything, you know how rare that it is ladies.

In any case I was angry about it and I let the whole house know it. My husband and Son came to the top of the basement stairs and just looked down at me, “like what did he do”? I showed them my shoes and then I tossed them with a BIG BANG in the garbage can.

I really had no idea that Max would draw a picture of my antics, but I guess it was very fresh in his mind for him to make a card out of it and then hand it to me as a gift.

I thanked him for the card because he wrote something so sweet inside of it which simply said, “Ilove my Mom.”

When I looked closer at the card I noticed something that I didn’t before, everyone including the dog was drawn at a normal size and guess who was the biggest and loudest thing on the cover……ME!

So I asked Max, why am I drawn so big? He said, “because you were loud.”

To see myself like that really hit home. Was I really that loud and screaming like somebody had hurt me? Then I heard the Lord’s voice? “Why are YOU so loud?”

All I could do was take a deep breath and say, “I don’t know.” I was angry about my shoes, but it was my attitude too.

I said to myself what could I have done differently? I guess I could have said Lucca why did you do that? but what answer was I going to get from a dog?

I let my emotions get the best of me over some stuff. I had plenty of shoes upstairs, but you know those were my favorites! That’s when God started to minister.

I saw myself up close and personal on that card. It’s easy sometimes when someone tells you this or that about yourself, but when you actually see it from another’s point of view or in my case from a child’s drawing, it really shuts you up. I was loud on paper too!

It never seemed to bother me that it was nothing to get that excited about. Puppies chew and they have to be taught what not to do. The Lord was saying, “did you take the time to teach before you started to yell”? No, I just reacted on what I saw and that was the whole problem. When you or I react, it causes a chain reaction to those around us. Sometimes the whole evening becomes chaotic after one fleshly outburst.

I don’t know why, but certain things just really get me going at times, but God was saying it’s no excuse to cause and effect the way you do. He knows we are going to get angry, but the word says, “sin not.” Don’t cause a scene over some shoes. That’s a little thing, how are you going to react when something huge comes along?

Also he told me the only thing that you should be that loud about is giving me praise. Not over some stuff that was destroyed by a dog that was doing what dogs do when they are not trained. So whose fault is it about the shoes? It was my own fault.

God has a way of showing you, you, no matter how you feel, you can’t get away when God wants to show you something about yourself that he does not like. He does it in love to say now change that before it destroys you and everyone else around you. I know some are probably thinking you had a right to be mad, but as the word says, “the little foxes ruin the vines.” The little things that we do that seem like nothing to me or you are BIG to God.

He says change that and this is how you do it: “A righteous man cares for the needs of his animal”– Prov. 12:10. God said take time out to train Lucca, it’s cruel not to teach him the does and don’ts of the house and discipline him when discipline is truly needed. Do your part as the owner.

Here’s the change for anger: God has given you and I spiritual weapons to help control anger: “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds) (Casting down imaginations and every high thing (including shoes – SMILES!) that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.” – II Cor. 10:4-5.

Don’t allow frivolous things to control your mind-set to the point where you have made a complete fool out of yourself in front of the whole family and your child decides to draw a picture of it. “He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind; and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.” –Prov. 1,29.

“Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour,that appeareth for a little time and then vanisheth away.” – James, 4:14. I would have hated for that moment to be the last thing that my son saw of me, in the event something would have happened. I want him to have a good thought of me not going off about something that doesn’t matter.

Last but not least the lesson learned on being loud:

The word “loud”, clearly means to be noisy and not subtle. God also says a “clanging symbol can be a bunch of noise.” There’s no rhythm to what you are trying to do Sheila, its just ear piercing noise to all that are near you.

And this is the part that still stings the most, God caught my action on camera, and my son showed me the picture, unaware that I was posing for a prize portrait of my foolish self.

But I have been made aware of my actions and I praise God for my son, who obviously was on an assignment from the Lord, so that I can work on being a better me, for him, my home as well as for the kingdom of God.

Just a little something to remember, we must accept God’s correction because the Word of God says, “For whom the Lord loves he chastens.”