From the book "The Emotionally Destructive Relationships"
by Leslie Vernick
"Healthy mature people allow reality and truth to teach them. Unhealthy individuals blame life or others instead of learning the laws of God's world; for example, you can't put your hand on a hot stove and not get burned. Healthy mature people look into God's truth to shape their ideas. (see Psalm 119, expecially verse 29, for the psalmists's commitment to this process.) Destructive people twist or distort God's Word to prove they are right or get their own way."
Psalm 119:17-29
7 Deal bountifully with Your servant,
That I may live and keep Your word.
18 Open my eyes, that I may behold
Wonderful things from Your law.
19 I am a stranger in the earth;
Do not hide Your commandments from me.
20 My soul is crushed with longing
After Your ordinances at all times.
21 You rebuke the arrogant, the cursed,
Who wander from Your commandments.
22 Take away reproach and contempt from me,
For I observe Your testimonies.
23 Even though princes sit and talk against me,
Your servant meditates on Your statutes.
24 Your testimonies also are my delight;
They are my counselors.
Daleth.
25 My soul cleaves to the dust;
Revive me according to Your word.
26 I have told of my ways, and You have answered me;
Teach me Your statutes.
27 Make me understand the way of Your precepts,
So I will meditate on Your wonders.
28 My soul weeps because of grief;
Strengthen me according to Your word.
29 Remove the false way from me,
And graciously grant me Your law."
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