When a narcissist rages over a calm response, you know you have injured their fragile ego. Those who are strong without need for the approval of others, there will be no vitriolic reaction to anything. The calm confident person remains under control without even trying. calmness and reason are a natural outpouring of a heart that is steadfastly confident in the Holy Spirit.
What people think of the confident Spirit led person is of no consequences at all. These people cannot be whipped around by emotion or the reactions of others.
When Christ is our continual focus and His principles well known to us, we have no need whatever to be accepted by others.
John 12:42-43 "42 Nevertheless, many of the leaders believed in Him; but because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue. 43 For they loved praise from men more than praise from God. 44 Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in Me does not believe in Me alone, but in the One who sent Me.…"
If anyone takes more space in our mind than Christ does then we must consider that we might have an idol. One loves people but not more than they love God. God must come first always above any person on earth.
Matthew 22:36-38 "…36 “Teacher, which commandment is the greatest in the Law?” 37 Jesus declared, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the first and greatest commandment.…"
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