Do Not Answer a Fool According to His Folly

Sister Karebear said this in a comment. I was pleased to hear it, because we encounter it all the time. Here is the conversation.

Sister Karebear said this; "This is why, I think, people even cut in front of me in line at the grocery store! They see our light and feel we won’t do anything. I say, what’s written on my face, please cut in front of me?!!! Lol Others see our light/HS, and it can cause them to get squirmy around you and even cause agitation to argue or fight with you. I have learned to not speak and just remove myself from the situation. People without Holy Spirit will not understand. The Holy Spirit says be still and leave."

Gwendolyn Wehage said this;

"Karebear Yes, there are those who are brazen enough to challenge the Holy Spirit, even seeing goodness and kindness as a weakness.

However, every action against us is an opportunity to remain faithful to the passage, "bless those who curse you", we may not be able to influence the rude person who sees us as weak but we are in a line where others may enjoy our light and be influenced by it.

Also, and this is a big "also", the very least and best that can happen is that we remain Christlike no matter how anyone else is acting. Even if the rude person thinks we are weak and they have won, does not mean we are weak and it does not mean they have won. The stronger person is the one who obeys Christ no matter the persecution."

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The best thing we can do is not allow a narcissist to win by becoming like them. The objective of the devil is to destroy our character and our witness by goading us into acting like the devil instead of like Christ.

Proverbs 26:4-5 – "Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes. The self-confident fool thinks too highly of himself and his opinions, and he shares them freely."

If we ignore the fool and remain Christlike we win their silly little competition, we don't play and they lose power over us.

Paganism in Christianity Today

Nearly everything in our culture has been framed around paganism of one sort or another. All my life I had the mentality of "why" do we do this or that, as you can imagine it caused people to be angry with me all the time. Most people don't want to be asked "why" because they love what they are familiar with whether or not it is true.

Can anyone reading this name something that they were taught and used all your lives that you discovered to be rooted in paganism?

I would be interested in how many people have evaluated something in their lives that they discarded because they discovered its roots. Please comment if you remember anything.

A dear friend sent me this in the pm this morning. It led me to comment here about it, here is the message below;

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Anger with God is Blasphemy

Many if not most of us are enduring trials in our lives, some small and some very big, they do not have to control our actions or emotions.

When we ponder the phrase in God's Word; "in Spirit and in Truth" we are comforted by the fact that our Spirit is at peace even when we have physical and emotional trials. This is why we don't have to lean into the "feelings" and the "pain", perhaps even smiling through the pain at times. We can smile because we know there is a purpose, even while we are weeping our heart is joyful.

It is really all about the perspective that drives us, either with great joy from God or anger from self-focus.

Proverbs 3:5-6

"5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart

And do not lean on your own understanding.

6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,

And He will make your paths straight."

Our attitude toward God determines our emotions and action. We can be calm and joyful even through our tears. Emotions are physical responses to difficulties, they do not have to control us. We can admit them, weep through them and remain faithful to God as we cry out to Him for His help and solutions.

We might not even be delivered from our trials but we will not be destroyed because we are leaning into Christ instead of the trial.

2 Corinthians 4:8-10

"8 we are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; 9 persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed; 10 always carrying around in the body the dying of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body."

The "way" we respond to our trials is a witness to our character and the character of Christ in us.

Back in the 70's Christians were saying it was alright to be angry with God, this was a lie from Satan. To be angry with God is to declare that He doesn't know what He is doing and that we deserve whatever we want. Anyone who has said this phrase or believes in it needs to repent and begin to trust in Christ.

Just Saying!