I Know My Rights

“They don’t understand that I died to Christ/died to my rights” Enock

Probably the hardest thing I have to deal with is my pride when it comes to forgiveness. There are times when I know I’m right and the other person is wrong. I was in a situation this week where I got into a conflict with someone. This other person gets real emotional when they get into conflicts. Doesn’t listen. Attitude. And what happens when I saw this? I got bitter. I got angry. Everytime I think about them I get upset because I know I was wronged. But that’s not forgiveness. Ephesians tells us to let go of bitterness, anger, wrath.

We have to come to the point (which I’m slowly beginning to accept) that we can’t have our way. Even though we might be right, we have to give up that right. Give up our way. We gotta stop fightin to be right in our minds.

Jesus is the ultimate example of this course. Him that did no wrong, took on the penalty of doing wrong. An innocent person becoming guilty.

Not only must we give up our right but we must be loving toward that person. The book of Ephesians is the perfect example of that. They was beefing big time with each other. But Paul instructed them to love from the heart. Not fake stuff. Not smiling in their face. Not treating them “nice“. But it has to be from the heart because you have put away that anger, wrath, bitterness. Once you put the focus back on God, you’ll have peace. You won’t focus on what that person did to you. It won’t be important. Being mad with someone will mess up your whole spiritual life. Just like John said “How can you love God, but hate your brother (sister).” You can’t.

Right now I’m fighting it. There are times, when I let it go. Then I start dwelling on what they did and it starts all over again. “It’s not fair” I say to myself. But it’s not about being fair. It’s about putting others before yourself. Even if it means your not actually wrong. But you have to become wrong for the sake of unity. I’m sure once I get married one day, I’ll have to deal with that.

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2 days after writing this, I called the person and it was all good. All this anger, bitterness was unwarranted. I thought they was thinking of me that way and it wasn’t nothing like it was in my mind. Crazy.