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Joy or sorrow.   Happy or sad.   Those seem to be the stance that most people take as they look at the people around them, but what I want to draw out attention to today is the fact that God is the one who ought to set our feelings as well as our faith. Too often we allow others to determine how we feel about ourselves and about life.   Take this a step further and notice that when we are not feeling good that taking our feelings out on others through our words or our actions is not a good thing.   When we aren’t happy with ourselves, it is easy to let that determine how we treat others. 1 Samuel 16:7   NLT … The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them.   People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart .” Jesus told us that some people will try to remove a small sin from another person’s life before removing the big sin from their own life.   That’s a bad deal.   By focusing on others we are drawn away f...