OFFENSE - How to Overcome Offense and Find Forgiveness - Daily Devotional - Little Big Things

When you’ve been offended, wronged or snubbed, you have every right to have the spirit of offense. What if there was a way to overcome offense and find forgiveness?
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Scripture References:
https://biblehub.com/bsb/1_samuel/19.htm
https://biblehub.com/bsb/1_samuel/24.htm
https://biblehub.com/context/2_samuel/1-11.htm
https://biblehub.com/luke/23-34.htm

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Video Text:
You’ve been offended. Wronged, insulted, or deliberately snubbed. You have every right to feel offended and to take offense.

Now let’s up the ante. Suppose you are wronged by a parent, a boss or pastor – someone who clearly has authority over you. You rightfully feel deeply hurt, disappointed and/or angry. The question at this point is simply how to handle the offense. How do you overcome the offense before the offense overcomes you?

Our modern world might give you this mixture of ideas:
Confront the offender
Write a letter or send an e-mail to put the facts on the table
Tell your friends and gain support of your position and then expose the facts

While any of these strategies might work, they also have huge potential to backfire. Many times, the person who caused the offense will become defensive – claiming they didn’t do anything wrong, so now the offense grows even worse. Pretty soon, instead of having a discussion about putting things right, everyone gets focused on who is not wrong. We defend ourselves and say things like, “I never said,” or “I didn’t know,” or “I cannot believe…”

Then the relationship deteriorates. Instead of being in right relationship and focusing on who is right, we focus on knowing our rights – and pointing the finger at who is wrong. Offense often lingers for lifetimes and can end in divorce, broken relationships and lost friendships.

What if there was a better choice! Let’s consider an alternative inside the story of David and Saul. Saul was the first king of Israel and at the onset of a major battle against the Philistines, a giant named Goliath taunted the Israeli army. Faced with a hopeless situation, Saul offered his daughter’s hand in marriage to the man who would defeat Goliath. A teenaged shepherd named David killed Goliath with a slingshot and became a hero, a favored son-in-law to the king and later a famous general in Saul’s army.

But within a few years, all of David’s fortunes changed when the people of Israel chanted, “Saul has killed his thousands and David his ten-thousands.” King Saul became enraged with jealousy, took David’s wife from him and chased David through the barren wilderness. 1Samuel8

We see that David repeatedly put his life on the line for Saul, and then Saul got so angry that he literally tried to hunt David down and kill him. Talk about reasons for David to take offense.

Amazingly, under two separate occasions, David had opportunities to kill Saul, end the chase, and become the next king of Israel. But David “refused to kill God’s anointed king.” Even though David spent 14 years hiding in caves and living on the run, he simply refused to take offense.

What an amazing choice! Later, when David heard that King Saul had been killed in a fierce battle with the Philistines, you can only imagine what David did… He cried out of grief. He actually cried for the man who had tried to kill him.

One thousand years later, as Jesus was being crucified, he too cried out saying, “Forgive them, Father, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Incredibly, not only did Jesus forgive, but in the midst of his misery, Jesus actually prayed for the people who had put him on the cross....

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