What’s the Impulse?

So this was actually a harder word to write on than I expected.  I thought Impulse…that will be easy.  But as I’ve gone throughout my day, yesterday and today, I couldn’t find something to write on.  Then, as my family has gone to bed, and I listen to a horse story on TV as I fight joining my family in their “Z’s” suddenly I recalled a co-workers impulse this week and how it had an end result different than intended. The hurt felt was hard to witness, and harder still, to talk it through.  It’s hard to understand sometimes why gifts can be angrily rejected.  

What’s the impulse?

What’s the impulse
Can you say?
Is it obvious to you
or do you need to search
your heart and soul?

Perhaps your intentions
are easy to discern
a desire to help, to
perhaps bring some healing
to another soul?

But sometimes, even
when our intentions are good,
the person receiving them
sees the impulse, or the
intention differently than
what was meant!

Even our intentions,
our impulses to do good,
are fractured by the evil that
resides so deeply within.
God’s word tells us that
people are evil all the time.

Nothing we do, even when
we are well-intentioned,
is seen, in the eyes of God
as good, unless he sees
the veil of Christ over us.

It doesn’t really change
though the hurt one feels
when the impulse to do good
is rejected by the receiver
of such action.

How do we understand
the why of such rejection
without taking it
deeply to heart and realizing
the rejection tells us about the
receiver NOT the giftee?

I think it encourages us
to look deeply within
to see if perhaps, somehow
in the giving, we suggested
something other than intended, or
perhaps, that examination,
will give a clue to why
the receivee became a rejectee.

That further gives a chance
to add that person to our
prayer list that God would
continue to mind them full-well
and that perhaps you can
be guided to something kind
that will suit better.

But I don’t know, 

what do you think? 

God’s word speaks

Romans 7:13-19

¹³ Did that which is good, then, bring death to me? By no means! It was sin, producing death in me through what is good, in order that sin might be shown to be sin, and through the commandment might become sinful beyond measure. ¹⁴ For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am of the flesh, sold under sin. ¹⁵ For I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate. ¹⁶ Now if I do what I do not want, I agree with the law, that it is good. ¹⁷ So now it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me. ¹⁸ For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out. ¹⁹ For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing. ²⁰ Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells within me.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

 This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all. The hearts of people, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live, and afterward they join the dead.