No one likes to be criticised, attacked, cut off in traffic, called a name, etc. Our first fleshly response is to lash back in word or deed. We just don’t like it when someone does something to us. We are always tempted to “get our own back” when this kind of thing happens.
Jesus addressed this issue. He does not teach that we must lay down and submit to any kind of attack, but He does tell us that we should never respond with a retaliatory attitude. In our language today Jesus would very well be saying, “let it go.”
We need never take a “get him back” attitude. It will ruin us and make us ineffective in our service to God. God will sort it all out.
Let it go
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