You can’t act entitled and any kind of way you please, it just shows you’re representing yourself alone. Because you really can’t be reflecting Christ. I mean what are His characteristics, do you measure up? Of course, no one does, but come on, we all reflect our earthly parents in some way, so should we be more aware and intentional to reflect Christ? Don’t be going around saying that it’s just the way you are…NO IT’S NOT, it’s what you choose to be like or act. Oh, but it feels right, TO WHO? Who’s on the receiving end of those words and actions? Not only have you potentially killed someone, but you’re assassinating your own name in the process.
Quiet yourself in all situations, find peace, hold onto peace. Oh, but they said something, a lie. SO! If it’s a lie, then why let it fuel you to the point you lose your peace? Was it worth the nature in which creates chaos? Did it really even change anything? I mean you already knew it was a lie. Who cares what they believe, they will find the truth in your peace. You do know why we feel we have to argue or remove ourselves from the peace right? Well, a couple things, one, our character has already been assassinated by our own actions because we did not live up to what we spoke previously, they’re contrary to one another. The second, ooowee this might make some of you all mad, in fact, if you already are feeling all riled up, then you know there is truth here; pride. You are prideful…oh but it’s confidence, it’s holy boldness, it’s righteous indignation…so why are you even speaking or agreeing with the latter? No, it’s not! Those things are products of humility and are not a means of justification. Pride causes you to justify, to explain or excuse, to minimize or reduce the impact of actions, to reinforce the actions and words spoken, it causes you to live the lie and prevent change because you don’t believe you’re in any kind of wrong. In fact, pride will prevent you from repenting and apologizing. If you struggle with this, well that’s evidence alone. Unfortunately, our reflection, our actions can prove the attainable love, grace, and mercy of Christ or it will cause someone to choose the world. Please understand that we are responsible for drawing people to Christ through the gift of love that was so freely given to us even when we didn’t deserve it. We must regift it to others and shift from the judgmental and critical aspect of who is deserving. Don’t be that person. Don’t be the one that not only assassinates self but others. Since there is power of life and death in our tongue, then we must guard what comes out. In order to do this, we have to recognize that we need to put in work with the Father to clean up our heart, to shift from pride, to repent, to forgive, to hold onto peace, to be about what we speak, and to reflect the love of Christ.
John 3:30 KJV – “30 He must increase, but I [must] decrease.”
Galatians 5:24-25 KJV – “24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”
Galatians 5:19-24 KJV – “19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. 24 And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.”
Romans 3:23 KJV – “23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”
Proverbs 18:21 KJV – “21 Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.”
James 4:6 KJV – “6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.”
1 Peter 5:5 KJV – “5 Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all [of you] be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.”
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV – “14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
Matthew 19:14 KJV – “14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.”
Matthew 5:23-24 KJV – “23 Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; 24 Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.”
1 Corinthians 9:19-23 KJV – “19 For though I be free from all [men], yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. 20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. 22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all [men], that I might by all means save some. 23 And this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I might be partaker thereof with [you].”
Matthew 7:3-5 KJV – “3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam [is] in thine own eye? 5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.”
Matthew 5:37 KJV – “37 But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.”
Matthew 15:17-20 KJV – “17 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught? 18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man. 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: 20 These are [the things] which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.”