Debate your case with your neighbour, And do not disclose the secret to
another; -
Proverbs 25v9
What
is the godly to handle conflict with someone? Does the Bible give advice on
something so simple and mundane?
The
nice thing is that God does care about these ‘little things’ and gave us this marvellous
little handbook of advice in the book of Proverbs.
When
you have a problem with someone, keep it between yourselves, don’t go blabbing
about it anyone else.
That
may be a pretty weak parrowphrase, but I think it captures the essence of what
God is saying.
I
wonder how often we could stop serious conflicts if we could just keep it
between the parties involved. In the New Testament we read that the first step
in dealing with an offence is to go, by ourselves, right the person who offends
us. It also says that if we think we may have offended them we go straight to
them to deal with it.
We,
well at least I, don’t always do that. I get my back up and try to garner some
support before I deal with it one on one. I have found that doing things that
way usually only makes matters worse.
Maybe
there is nothing deep here today, but there is some pretty good advice that
would save us all a lot of trouble.
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