When we are defensive toward those we like just because we like them, we will excuse all the evil, even becoming angry that anyone pointed out their evil.
I have seen family members defend someone who is rude but not defend the people they offended.
This is backward. Telling people to forgive, without the offender being sorry is another form of revictimizing the one who was the target of the rudenes.
I have yet to hear one person tell the offender to repent from their rudeness. The pressure is always on the one who was offended to forgive. Satan loves this, it not only places the blame on the victim it empowers the rude person to continue being rude and encourages others to support the rudeness.
It is possible that onlookers fear the retaliation of the offender more than they care about justice.
Proverbs 31:8-9: "Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute"
Psalm 82:3-4: "Defend the weak and the fatherless; uphold the cause of the poor and the oppressed"
God is clear that we are to defend those who are being neglected and attacked by those who love to feel powerful through their rudeness.
We are living in a world now in which many people feel empowered to be mean and unkind because they know no one will come to the defense of their victims.
When family and friends become more important than their victims then we cannot possibly love the victims. Those we allow to be unkind are the ones who have our love.
Stay away from those who victimize others through mocking, intimidation and dismissiveness, they will only ruin your walk with Christ.
2 Timothy 3:5 "5 having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people."
Those who are rude and unrepentant for that rudeness are deceived by the devil to believe they have a good reason, they are not led by the Holy Spirit but controlled by the devil.
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