Don’t Prove Your Enemies Right
TUESDAY’S DAILY BIBLE VERSE: “The Pharisees and the teachers of the law were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal on the Sabbath.” (Luke 6:7, NIV)
Welcome back to the Daily Bible Coach, where we give you 5 minutes of personal development and inspiration EACH morning… from a biblical perspective. I hope you are having a BLESSED Tuesday.
In today’s daily bible verse, Jesus was about to heal the withered hand of an old man. The Pharisees and the other leaders of the religious sects were OFFENDED that Jesus would “break” their man-made laws.
(Their law in this instance was this: You can’t heal a person on the Sabbath day… because you are not supposed to work on the Sabbath day, and healing someone is working, hence it’s a sin! lol)
The Pharisees at this point in time, had set up MANY religious laws that were meant to make them “look holy and righteous” on the outside… but in the end, many were empty, shallow... and even down-right dirty to impose on people and burden them with.
While there is nothing at all wrong with having good traditions, man-made rules, etc… it becomes a HUGE problem when people allow man-made traditions, laws and rules to supercede and trump the very heart of God.
So Jesus asks these religious leaders is it LAWFUL for a person to do a good work on the Sabbath. The stiff-lipped Pharisees don’t answer out of their selfish pride and arrogance… and Jesus proceeds to heal the man. Now you know this didn’t make Him any friends with the Pharisees — in fact they tried to kill Him! (To their benefit… at least they didn’t try to do that ‘work’ on a Sabbath)
In life… we will have those who hate us, those who despise us, and those who come against us for NO reason at all… and all you can do is accept that as a fact, and roll with the punches.
But when people DO come at you and DO accuse you… don’t prove them right by the actions you take and by the words that you speak.
What I mean by this saying is this, for example: If you have an enemy that says that you are a no-good, dirty, so and so… don’t prove them right by acting a fool and cursing them out in front of everybody.
Your negative actions that you thought were justified have just proven your enemy to be right about what they just said about you!
Choose to walk on the high road and ABOVE your enemies. They can talk bad all they want about you — but in the end, the actions that you do (or don’t do) in open and behind closed doors SHOW you to be a blameless and clean child of God… because you choose not to bow down to the same level as the fools who accuse you falsely.
No matter how much you want to get even, or defend yourself, or pay back those people that go out to INTENTIONALLY hurt you in front of others… be like Jesus and turn the other cheek. Don’t add fuel to the flame by seeking revenge out on them… but instead douse out the fire with the anointing that God has poured upon your life.
Any comments, thoughts or questions? Please leave them below. Have a blessed day and see you tomorrow!
Category: Daily Bible Verse Coach, Motivation, Patience
This just prove that my actions to say nothing at times relates to Gods guidence. Thanks