In these last days, the devil will attempt to bait you through the rudeness of the culture. Don't take the bait.
Attempting to teach rude people through expressing your dismay or lecturing them only brings fighting and trouble, the very thing the devil wants to happen.
For an honest forthright person it is sometimes difficult to remain silent when someone is acting rudely, but know that it is God's will not to throw our pearls in front of swine.
Swine are people who refuse to hear you and love that you are frustrated and will use your comments to start an even bigger fight. They love to mock and demean for the purpose of watching you squirm. Its best to learn to remain silent and chuckle a little inside as they make fools of themselves.
Proverbs 18:2
"A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion."
Proverbs 1:7
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction."
Proverbs 29:9
"If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet."
The problem of rudeness has increased dramatically in these last days in which "self-esteem" has been taught in schools and churches.
Many people in the culture I come from and live in now think that their rudeness is just normal conversation but is peppered heavily with pride, self-righteousness, and the inability to discuss anything at length unless it elevates them in some way.
I rarely hear people asking the views of others or responding when mildly challenged to think differently from the way they were taught.
Many conversations are so superficial and even silly that when anyone attempts to talk about something deeper they are ignored, mocked, and even gossiped about for their desire to discuss more important matters.
Our world is a very difficult place for those who love to ponder and discuss spiritual matters.
Has anyone else noticed that discussions about the Holy Spirit never seem to come up in churches anymore? Even though the Holy Spirit is the very essence of life for the born-again believer, He is ignored in the churches and in conversation.
Often I have spoken of the Holy Spirit as the source of our instruction, wisdom, and even correction to remain faithful to the ways of God but am treated as though I have spoken nonsense. I notice too that often the people I speak to about Him act as though I am using the Holy Spirit as a "copout" as though it is an excuse to ignore man's ways.
My experience has been more angst and demeaning over the subject of the Holy Spirit than love and support.
As soon as I say we should seek the Holy Spirit for our wisdom I see glazed-over eyes, disinterest, and excuses to exit the conversation.
When I say we should trust the Holy Spirit, the next words out of the hearer's mouth are ways we can humanly do something. They treat the Holy Spirit as though they don't really believe in Him.
Proverbs 28:26
"Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered."
Proverbs 10:23
"Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding."
John 14:26
"But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you."
It is no wonder why so many "Christians" are indifferent to the Holy Spirit when they do not believe in Him enough to seek Him and obey when He speaks. I am convinced the Holy Spirit has gone silent in the lives of most Christians because they don't want to hear from Him.
Romans 8:26 E
"Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words."
Galatians 5:22-23
"But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
There is no way we could ingore or diminish the Holy Spirit if we believe what the Bible, what God says about Him.
1 Corinthians 6:19
"Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,"
The Holy Spirit should be everything in our lives. He should be the One we seek first about everything. He should be the One we want to speak through us and to us continually.
John 14:15-17
“If you love me, you will keep my commandments. And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Helper, to be with you forever, even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you."
If we are not led by the Holy Spirit we are led by the flesh.
Galatians 5:15-17 "15 But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another. 16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. 17 For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. "
The more we seek the Holy Spirit the more we seek the Holy Spirit. It becomes a practice that we do every day for all things when we have formed a habit He will come instantly to mind without having to try because you love Him so much, more than anything or anyone else.
Romans 8:4
"so that the righteous standard of the law might be fulfilled in us, who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit."
May the Holy Spirit rule in you all the time.
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