The age of offense
Boy, have we become a touchy people! Everywhere you turn, someone is getting out of joint over some comment made either to their face or on social media. "How dare he!" He dared. What do we do with such upsets and comments aimed at us? Do we let them get to us? Can we just forgive and forget? When we are offended and don't nip it in the bud immediately, it becomes a stumbling block. Don't take my word for it, it's in God's Word. "Great peace have they which love Thy law: and nothing shall offend them." Psalm 119:165 The Hebrew for the last part of this verse is: a stumbling, means or occasion of stumbling, a stumbling block. In other words, an offense trips us up and we fall - if we let it. Is it really worth it? I mean the slightest thing can cause the touchy to be offended. It's gotten entirely out of control! But as Christians, we do not have to stumble. Do you realize how many times Jesus was offended when He was here? The religious