1 Peter 4:14 · World English Bible
If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed; because the Spirit of glory and of God rests on you. On their part he is blasphemed, but on your part he is glorified.
Being insulted stings, and the heart wants to answer scorn with scorn to save its wounded pride. The quieter fault is the wish to be seen suffering nobly, to make even the insult a badge.
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Being insulted stings, and the heart wants to answer scorn with scorn to save its wounded pride. The quieter fault is the wish to be seen suffering nobly, to make even the insult a badge. The cure is to let the wrong pass without display, keeping the honor of the Name in secret rather than parading one's own patience.
The same word is mockery on one tongue and glory on another, one reality turned two ways by two hearts. Where the insult lands, the very presence it denies comes to rest, so that the scorned person becomes the exact place that presence is honored in the world.
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What insult are you still carrying, and who are you waiting to see it?
If someone speaks badly of you and it is true, mend it, and if it is false, let them be wrong. The insult only wounds the part of you that needed their approval.
The praised and the blamed are the same person, and holding back the answering blow is the real strength. Returning anger just hands your peace to whoever took it.
Nothing is softer than water, and nothing is better at wearing down what is hard. Yielding is not losing.
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