Are you offended?
Are you walking in un-forgiveness?
Life would be so much simpler
if we would not walk in afence (I spelled it that way on purpose) I heard about
a dream. The man was standing at the
edge of this beautiful field. Down the
middle was a fence. On one side was
Jesus and all who loved him. On the opposite
side was the devil and all who loved him.
The man decided to get a better view so he got on the fence and everyone
disappeared. Then the devil appeared
and said, “There you are…. I have been looking all over
for you” the man said, “I love Jesus I
am on the fence leave me alone” Satan said “I don’t think so who do you think OWNS the fence? Matthew 5:37 But
let your ‘Yes’ be ‘Yes,’ and your ‘No,’ ‘No.’ For whatever is more than these
is from the evil one. That
is why I spelled the word offense as afence.
I think if you are walking in offense then you are on the fence. You see we as followers of Jesus are not to
become offended. I truly believe if you
love Jesus with all of your heart mind and soul and love your neighbor as yourself. Then it is impossible to become
offended. I did not say you couldn’t get
hurt I said offended. Being offended is
a choice with huge ramifications. What did
Jesus say: Matthew
22:37 Jesus
said to him, “‘you
shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all
your mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your
neighbor as yourself.
I want to be so free from me, that I am free
from you. Know what is bad about being
offended? You spew poison from your
mouth and it gets on everyone around you.
Especially those closest to you.
When that happens then it is easy for that person to become offended for
you. Then you feed off on each other. Happens all the time. Remember Pain will always happen, but it is
your choice to suffer YOUR CHOICE!
So here is the big question. Stop right now and ask Holy Spirit. Am I offended? Am I offended because something happened to
my spouse at work or something? Am I
offended because someone replied to my post on Facebook and it hurt my little
feelings so you UN friended them? I
will touch on why I am witting this later.
Let’s just say I had an opportunity to become really offended and I
chose not to get offended.
Proverbs 19.11 Good sense makes
one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.
