If you notice carefully, when someone gets offended or hurt because of words spoken or an action, you will find that that hurt or offence could have been completely avoided.
By this I mean that most of the time, we ourselves are the reason for getting offended or hurt. How we react to that situation at that point in time, is the KEY to how we feel after that situation is passed. Getting offended is easy, but there needs to be a way to not get offended easily.
Well…!! Let’s see what God has to tell us from His Word about how not to get offended by anything:
1. Forbearing one another – The dictionary meaning of the word “Forbearing” refers to being restrained or being patient. However, when we consider forbearing from the eyes of Jesus, we will find how Jesus has been patiently enduring us from the time we came to know Him. Even today and until this moment Jesus forbears us knowing who we really are! Forbearance happens when it is joined with Forgiveness.

2. By preserving our fleshy heart – A heart of flesh is a soft and sensitive heart. It is sensitive to the still small voice of the Holy Spirit speaking to the heart. God cannot speak into a hardened heart. A heart of flesh is always in a broken and contrite state before God.

3. By reminding ourselves who we really are – Just like Abraham says, Lord I am but dust and ashes.. Genesis 18:27, we must understand this truth and remind ourselves daily. A dust is an insignificant thing, as good as nothing. A blow of wind is enough to unsettle it and the same particle of dust is difficult to be found once again. When we consider ourselves as dust, we will not be offended by anything that others say or do against us.
For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust. As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. Psalms 103:14-16
May God help us! ❤️
Great post!
I had a problem with getting offended. Then I heard that I needed to determine in my heart to forgive before I ever became offended. This approach does work.
Too often we get offended and we are doing the same thing or are puffed up with pride. The problem lies within us not with the other person.
Amen! You are right!😊 Thank you so much 💜
You are welcome
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Amen, the next time you find yourself getting offended, check your attitude. It can also help to put yourself in the offenders shoes. Did them mean to offend? Was it poor word choice or misunderstood body language.
Remember that at all.times you and you alone are responsible for your actikns, reactions, lack of action & attitude.
Thank you 🙏
Amen
Praise God! Thank you and God bless 😊❤️
Offend= Pride . We are getting offend means, we are fogeting who(dust) we are. Pride occur before being offend.
May God helps me to humble as @Jesus 🙏
Amen! You are right! May God help us to remember always that we are dust 😇🙏
I love the way you describe “forbearing”, and also humility and identity in step 3. Great tips, friend!
Praise God! Thanks for the beautiful words of encouragement!! 💕😇
Yes, guard our heart with all diligence for out of it springs the issues of life. Amen
Amen! You are right brother! Another Scripture portion says in Jeremiah 17:9 that “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?”
An unguarded heart brings in a lot of troubles!