Be Difficult To Offend

Yeah, okay. Sometimes your blindsided and offence is just a natural course of action but thank God for little devotional's like this one and the ability to look back upon to help keep us on track.

We can be overcomers and offense will no longer have the same effect on us as it once did.

God Bless.

Be Difficult to Offend

by Joyce Meyer 

Great peace have they who love Your law; nothing shall offend them or make them stumble - Psalm 119:165 

People who want to live powerful lives must become experts at forgiving those who offend and hurt them. When someone hurts my feelings or is rude and insensitive to me, I find it helpful to quickly say, “I will not be offended.” I have to say those words quietly in my heart if the person is still in my presence, but later when the memory of what he or she did returns to haunt me, I repeat them aloud. When I say, “I will not be offended,” I always pray for God to help me, realizing that I can do nothing without Him. My husband, Dave, has always been difficult to offend. When he is around people who could hurt him or in situations where he could be offended, he says, “I am not going to let negative people control my mood. They have problems and they are not going to give their problems to me.” On the other hand, I spent many years getting my feelings hurt regularly and living in the agony of offense, but I am not willing to live that way any longer. I am busy getting a new mind-set. Are you willing to join me in becoming a person who is hard to offend? If so, you will open the door to more peace and joy than you have ever known before. People are everywhere, and you never know what they might say or do. Why give the control of your day to other people? Being hurt and offended does not change the people, it only changes us. It makes us miserable and steals our peace and joy, so why not prepare ourselves mentally not to fall into Satan’s trap? 

Developing the mind-set that you are a person who is difficult to offend will make your life much more pleasant. Trust in Him: Do you get your feelings hurt easily? Trust God to help you become a person who is difficult to offend. 

From the book Trusting God Day by Day by Joyce Meyer. Copyright © 2012 by Joyce Meyer. Published by FaithWords. All rights reserved.