How often do we sacrifice our own peace and happiness in an attempt to salvage someone else’s reputation? I think we tend to do this more often than we admit. Someone does us wrong, either morally or ethically, and in order to “keep the peace” and not cause strife, we play it off. Sound familiar?
Granted, I feel there are many occasions when we should let things roll off our back. But what about things that deeply hurt us? Things that keep us from thriving as a Christian? I often think about abuse of power, abuse by those in authority over us? Leaders who have an obvious agenda and we are just pawns in that agenda? People that treat us like trash or throw-a-ways.
Where and when is it time to speak up? How often do we simply “roll with it” or worse, convince ourselves we deserved it or brought it onto ourselves? When we do this, our inner peace suffers, if not becoming non-existent. We have no possibility to thrive as we are too busy merely trying to survive.
I once got to a point in life where I had so many knives in my back, there wasn’t possibly room for one more. If I was going to be backstabbed again, it’ll have to be in the front… and they would have to look me in the eye while doing it. That is when I realized this is madness and I was close to being spiritually and emotionally bled out.
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