Over the years I learned that many frustrations with others and what they do is an indicator of internal issues that are unresolved within ourselves. These things offend us. Though that is not always the case I really wanted to explore this in my blog.
Psalm 119:165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.
The Word of good is key component to keep us out of offense. When we let things other than the Word of God rule in our life, opinions and the way we see things offense is easy. It's like pinned up resentment that is waiting to burst over. Avoiding an issue or just trying to leave it like it doesn't matter is a setup in any relationship. The issue will return. The offense may even be deeper than the issue at hand.
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
The Word of God looks beyond the surface to reveal these things if we submit to it revealing things we don't even know about ourselves in the process. Why we think and act the way we do. It reveals our mindsets and motives. Nothing can be hidden from it. The Word doesn't consider what was done to you but how will you respond to it in your personal walk.We are supposed to forgive and not hold that root of bitterness in our heat against others. We are not even supposed to spread that offense to others.
James 1:23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: 24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. 25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
Finally we must do what the Word of God has revealed to us and not what we think to see the effects of it in our lives. You can see you are jacked up in a mirror but if you don't fix yourself up at that moment you'll forget how bad you looked. We need to continue in the perfect law of liberty by walking it out. What you do is what stays a part of your life. This is where the Word of God becomes more than head knowledge and it becomes action that is demonstrated to the world for the glory of God. That's the goal for Jesus to be demonstrated in the earth realm. While everybody reacts typically you now have an opportunity to effect a life for eternity.
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