Monday
December 16, 2024
"Mind Your Own Business"
Have you ever noticed how some of the nicest, sweetest, and most loveliest people in the world are often ridiculed and/or criticized for not being what other people think that they should be? Such people are very frequently criticized because they tend to be able to take more garbage or rubbish than some people think they should. Oh yes, there are those individuals who are willing and ready to get confrontational at the drop of a hat, so to speak, and be prepared to meet force with force if the need so arises. Those who do not think that such tactics are always warranted will frequently be called such names as chicken, lily-livered, scared, or whatever such names people can come up with just to denigrate an individual. Part of the reason The Lord JESUS was not received as He should have been, was because many of the Pharisees had the wrong idea of Who He was supposed to have been. The people were looking for and expecting a different kind of Savior other than what they got in JESUS because The Lord JESUS was not the revolutionist that they expected.
Most of you have heard the saying that you cannot judge a book by its cover, and that is definitely the way that it should be in the case of certain people, especially those of whom you know very little. Just because someone might not behave the way that you might expect them to or desire them to behave, there is no need to resort to name-calling. Some people are just able to withstand more than someone else can, which means that they are probably stronger and more resilient than one might think. Oh, it can be so easy to look down on others when you have no idea of how or what they might be thinking. One also cannot know what is in a person's heart at any particular time. Learn therefore to give a person a little room to be who they need to be and not be who you think that they should be. Bless you, who just learn to let them be, in and through JESUS CHRIST your Lord and Savior.
AMEN
