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We live in a “culture of offenses” where we must be careful to continually be politically correct or we might get in hot water and offend those around us. Sadly, offending people has become a sort of negative norm and has risen to the forefront in our daily interactions with each other. As hard as we try, somewhere someone is offending somebody sometime and we have no control over how people respond to what happens to them. So while we have zero control about the response of people that feel offended, we have total control of how WE respond when people offend us.
We can’t help the poor actions or offensive statements of others, nor can we stop racists from hating, sexists from denigrating, or elitists from power trips, but God has given each of us the spirit of Self-Control — the self-same spirit that Jesus practiced all throughout His ministry. When or if you are confronted with offensive verbiage or other abuse, practice the following:
See offenders as broken people in need of God’s grace, not as people who are out to get you
Extend grace and compassion towards those who hurt you.
Choose not to take up an offense and let it roll off your back!
Like anything in life, GODLY LOVE is the answer. When someone offends you, forgive and pray for them. Their offensive action is a clue they need inner healing and compassion.
God Bless Your Day Jesus Loves You
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As a 17-year-old recruit in boot camp, I had been given the order to stand the midnight to 0400 watch over my barracks at Naval Training Center, San Diego. At one point in my rounds I stopped at the rear fire escape of the second deck above a canal that led out to the bay. Looking out over a moon-lit night lay the safety of the base fence. Cars drove silently along in the distance while lights of the houses up on the hills twinkled beneath a calm starry sky. And then this struck me…
What exactly am I guarding here? This is a recruit training base! We’re inside a protected border in a non-war zone of a major U.S. city housing one of the largest military bases in the country. So what was my purpose?
As today’s scripture verse says, those that Hear and Obey and are Watching are (and will be) BLESSED. In my watch, if I had gone to sleep or left my post I could have been severely reprimanded or even court martialed - as inconsequential as it was to the security of the nation.
The point is that no matter what you are given to do in this life, do it well and do it faithfully. There is a reward for all those that HEAR God’s voice and answer His call. It is not how big or important the watch we have been given, but how FAITHFUL we are in carrying out what we are called to do.
God Bless Your Day Jesus Loves You
NotesOnLife.org