Get good at being Offended

We’ve become intolerant to anything that offends us.

While our culture has attempted to create an “OFFENSE FREE ZONE”, that is both unrealistic and unhelpful. It’s unrealistic because you’re always going to have wicked people attacking what you’re doing right and it’s unhelpful because the Truth of God’s Word and the laws of nature will be offensive when they confront what you’re doing wrong.

In both cases we have not been taught to respond well to offense. Our current training is to CANCEL anything that offends and silence the source of that offense. But, if we want to move forward as an individual and as a society it’s going to require that we learn to embrace or reject these offensive messages differently.

If we’re not handling these confronting messages correctly, we may accept wrong thoughts and reject the right critiques. The key here is to identify how we are to interpret the messages we’re getting. We must identify a standard by which we can judge if something is true or not. To do this in the natural, we look to the manufacture of an appliance to fix or operate it. In the same way we must look beyond ourselves to our maker to know how to best operate.

That maker is Jesus! And that operation manual is the Bible.

So, all the offensive messages must be filter thru or judged by what the Bible says. Even if someone tells me something that feels highly offensive.... before I reject it, I need to see if it lines up with God’s Word.

If it does, then I’ll accept the challenge and make the adjustments to my life. If the offense and mandate is unbiblical then I’ll reject it, ignore the source and move on. If you practice that, you’ll see your life grow, improve and ultimately THRIVE!

“Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.”
‭‭Romans‬ ‭12:2‬ ‭NIV‬‬