It seems today people think they have the right to be rude. If someone blocks their way in traffic, well then they have a right to blare their horn. If somebody says or does something that might temporarily inconvenience them, they have the right to tell them off. If a decision is made that doesn’t “work” for them, they have a right to complain to everyone in earshot. Whenever something is amiss in their eyes, watch out, because they can behave however they want until it’s “right”. This right to be rude seems even to have been extended to Christians. But it’s a right we should refuse. Romans 12:17 says “Never pay back evil for evil to anyone. Respect what is right in the sight of all men.” Others mistakes, perceived or real, don’t give us the right to behave unbecomingly.
Ok, I know you have seen the image. A lion tamer enters in the cage of the beast and forces it to obey his commands using a whip, a gun and a chair. Now you can see how the whip and gun could come in handy but you might be wondering why a chair would intimidate an animal as powerful as a lion? Clyde Beatty taming a lion with a chair It's not that the lion is afraid of the chair -- it's that the lion is confused by the chair. Cats are single-minded, and the points of the chair's four legs bobbing around confuse the lion enough that it loses its train of thought. Casually put, the chair distracts the lion from wanting to claw the lion tamer's face off. The powerful creature could destroy the chair in moment’s notice but instead it is distracted into submission. It’s not too much different than how Satan controls us today. By the power of God we could overcome anything that he would use to subdue us. We can overcome the evil one (1 st John 2:13-14). ...
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