Mat 5:2 And he opened his mouth, and taught them,
saying…
Mat 5:25 Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles
thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to
the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into
prison.
Mat 5:26 Verily I say unto thee, Thou shalt by no
means come out thence, till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing.
Be reconciled with
our enemies.
It's true that
people who purposely set out to hurt others and do as much damage to them as
possible will not generally be swayed from that course of action. But while a
situation is developing if at all possible we must do everything we possibly
can - as children of God - to defuse it.
We ARE NOT to be stubborn- this is NOT what God wants of us, this is not
what Christ is teaching us. We ARE NOT
to hold fast to our pride at the expense of all else. A person who can, will make someone pay to
the uttermost for any slight incurred- whether deliberate or not. When we get a
hold of our pride and let it run away with us the damage it is causing can be
irreparable.
Have you ever had an
argument with someone that went on far longer than it had to because you held
fast to your pride?
We are to be
selfless, not prideful.
Even if we are RIGHT
a person arguing how much they are right, refusing to just let a situation go,
will often suffer for their insistence at being right.
I'm not talking
about denouncing Christ or our walk with God, I'm talking about arguing over
mundane things. Does the fact we are right- perhaps someone took money from us,
stole from us and we know it but they insist they didn't. Do we hold fast to
our belief that they stole from us to the point they are able to convince a
judge that we are bad mouthing them, slandering them because we have no proof
of the theft? Does the fact we are in the right mean that much to us? Should
it?
The ultimate Judge,
our God, our Savior will judge in truth knowing all things, nothing hidden from
them. Rather than our desire to be RIGHT being paramount, we should be desiring
leniency, desiring a way to reveal forgiveness and love even to those who do
not want to admit to wrong doing.
Our Savior stood
before judges and they ordered Him crucified. Did He throw a fit trying to
convince them of His innocence? Did He
submit to His sentence, though it was of the grossest injustice? How did He
behave as One who was completely innocent?
He is our EXAMPLE in all things.
We are NOT to give
in to arguing and fighting - even if it's just verbally- with anyone over anything.
We do though. We
argue all the time. Maybe not huge fights but little spats. Is it possible our little spats are just as
bad as larger arguments? Is it better to
have 100 little spats or 10 large fights?
Who determines all this? The
truth is - it's better not to argue at
all- a little bit, or a lot and this is what our SAVIOR was trying to teach
us. Not to be prone to arguing for ANY
REASON AT ALL!
We don't know when
any argument we have might snowball out of control far beyond anything we ever
imagined.
Arguing is wrong.
We will pay in some
way for all our arguing because all our arguing has consequences.
By the grace of God
may we STOP fighting with others, STOP arguing, STOP trying to prove our
rightness even if we are as right as right can be. May we ever remember our SAVIOR standing
before His judges and how He behaved. May we ever recall how our SAVIOR treated
those who taunted Him. May we LIVE with
CHRIST ever our EXAMPLE, ever before us, ever in our LIVES.
All in HIS LOVE!
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