What Comes Out Of You?
It’s easy to love those who love us; to be kind to those who are kind to us, and to give blessings to those who give blessings to us!
But, what do you do when you are attacked; when unkind words are spoken to you, or about you, or when you are cursed?
The test comes when we are angry, wounded, or hurt! What comes out of us then?
We read in Isaiah 53 about what Jesus would suffer unjustly!
Isaiah 53:4-10
Surely He hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem Him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon Him; and with His stripes we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on Him the iniquity of us all. He was oppressed, and He was afflicted, yet He opened not His mouth: He is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so He openeth not His mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare His generation? for He was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of My people was He stricken. And He made His grave with the wicked, and with the rich in His death; because He had done no violence, neither was any deceit in His mouth. Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise Him; He hath put Him to grief: when Thou shalt make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.
He opened not His mouth!
Jesus took the mockings, the false accusations about Who He was. He took being called Beelzebub, and the Pharisees saying He cast out demons by the power of the devil. He took beatings, and death on a cross — and yet He said these Words to those who did these things to Him — “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.“
Luke 23:34.
When Jesus was reviled, the Word says that He did not revile in return! He took the wrongs He suffered! Instead of cursing those who did these things to Him, He gave His life for them!
1 Peter 2:21-24
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow His steps: Who did no sin, neither was guile found in His mouth: Who, when He was reviled, reviled not again; when He suffered, He threatened not; but committed Himself to Him that judgeth righteously: Who His own self bare our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by Whose stripes ye were healed.
God have His Son to die for us while we were His enemies!
Romans 5:7-8
For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die. But God commendeth His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
In our flesh our reaction to those who hurt us, lie about us, or wrong us in any way is to lash out, and speak evil in return to them! Others even justify this behavior saying go ahead, they had it coming!
But, beloved we do not walk in the flesh, or should not! His Spirit lives inside of those who are born again, and to do so grieves His Spirit!
If we are not grieved when we sin in this way, we must ask ourselves if we are truly born again, and being led by His Spirit in us!
Ephesians 4:29-32
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.
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