{"id":561,"date":"2008-05-28T06:03:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T13:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=561"},"modified":"2008-05-28T06:05:07","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T13:05:07","slug":"taking-up-an-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2008\/taking-up-an-offense\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Up an Offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=150 border=0 cellpadding=10 cellspacing=0 bgcolor=\"#003300\" align=right align=texttop>\n<tr>\n<td><b><font color=\"#339933\">Reading:<\/font><br \/>\n<font color=\"#ffffff\">Proverbs 3:27-35<\/font><br \/>\n<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Sometimes &#8212; oftentimes, it seems &#8212; we humans take personally a wrong (real or imagined) done against another. Even though no harm has been done to us, we take personal offense. We may feel insulted, angry, hurt, bitter, and\/or who knows what else. We may even enter into a conflict that is not our own at all.<\/p>\n<p>I thought of that when I read verse 30 this morning:<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=brown>&#8220;Strive not with a man without cause, if he have done thee no harm.&#8221;<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>I thought of a woman who got very angry with me even though I had done her no wrong. She ended up entering into strife with no personal cause at all.<\/p>\n<p>I see that quite clearly. Just as I see that obeying this verse would have helped her avoid problems for herself as well as would have helped her avoid causing further problems for others.<\/p>\n<p>Alas, I don&#8217;t see matters quite as clearly when I am the one taking up somebody else&#8217;s offense.<\/p>\n<p>Let me see clearly the next time I&#8217;m inclined to strive with somebody without cause!<\/p>\n<p>God calls His people to graceful, godly peacemaking &#8212; not to angry meddling and strife.<\/p>\n<p>I want to be a peacemaker!<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/hissecret-b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pantinghart\/wp-content\/hissecret-s.jpg\" alt=\"[His secret is with the righteous (Proverbs 3:32)]\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><i>from Proverbs 3:32<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p><b>A little bit more from Proverbs 3:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/cgi-bin\/webbbs\/lift\/lift.cgi?read=8556\"><font color=green>Are They Blessed in My House?<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading: Proverbs 3:27-35 Sometimes &#8212; oftentimes, it seems &#8212; we humans take personally a wrong (real or imagined) done against another. 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