2 Timothy 4:2-4 "…2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. 3 For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears, they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. 4 So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.…"
We are living in a culture that considers it rude and even a personal attack to be corrected, do not let this deter you from your path or the leading of the Holy Spirit.
There are going to be so few people telling the truth to help others see their need for Christ, that we will be viewed as strange for doing so. Never allow this to deter you from continuing to obey God.
There may also come a time when the loneliness for lack of companionship feels more like peace than abandonment. It is a struggle to attempt to keep happy those who refuse to turn to Christ. What a relief when God removes the narcissist for a time.
Peace is preferred to continual senseless drama, at least in my opinion. The world around us is working every day to shape us into their image, when we do not comply they attack, either overtly or covertly.
The world is all around us, in our extended families, in our communities, even in our homes. How does one deal with all this mess, especially if they cannot get away from it?
A suggestion or two may be of help to some of you. My suggestion is to pray continually, ignore insults since a response will only feed the narcissist escalating into an argument, this is the devil's plan.
Speak the truth and ignore the responses to it. DO NOT FIGHT BACK, but remove yourself for a time to gather your composure. The narcissist wants to fight their pokes are calculated and deliberate.
If the trouble maker claims to be a Christian repeat God's word without commentary. If God's word is rejected, say no more and go to prayer.
If we are to endure this wicked world full of devil who love conflict we are going to have to remain in prayer a lot, obey what God says and above all, ask the Lord to help you to be what He wants you to be, that His ways will be our ways.
Isaiah 55:8-9
8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts."
We can only know what we should say and do if the Holy Spirit is saying and doing it through us.
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