OFFENSE IS DANGEROUS PIQUE TO CLIMB

 OFFENSE IS DANGEROUS PIQUE TO CLIMB

Thursday, January 28, 2016

Proverbs [ESV] 16:31-32 Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is gained in a righteous life. Whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

Galatians 5:22-26 … the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

  HAVE YOU BEEN OFFENDED YET TODAY? NO, THEN WHY NOT?! (Recent FB posting rec’d.) 

  My in-home adult grandson operates professionally from here. His bedroom is his office and warehouse. He drives long distances around the eastern half of Nebraska installing, teaching use of, and servicing Caption Call phones for the hearing impaired. (Including Granpa.) His career is not just about a helpful instrument; going in diverse households he is very sensitive to the feelings of the individual and their families. Ian is not easily tricked into pique taken or given.

  Recently his 5 State manager phoned to ask if he had offended him. Ian was baffled as to what the manager was referring to. The manager explained he was checking because some other employees had taken offense after reading a business e-mail he had sent out. Again, Ian was baffled as to why others were offended and he was not.

  I am pleased that grandson Ian is not caught up in the landslide of a current culture of foolishness.

  Taking offense is a very risky pique to mount, for it is contrary to the victory that God Incarnate, Lord Jesus Christ, spoke of: “… in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world." (Jn.16:33)

  Riding the high horse of offense involves a level of anger resulting in ungodly impatient attitude that tumbles us down from victorious living in His peace with the gentleness of Jesus’ Spirit; When our haughty pride reins high we ride hard far from patiently seeing where others live. And they see us as  “Riding with the devil.”

  A person I know well once wearily intoned “Climbing Everest would be easier than surmounting my pride!”

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