No one is in control of our behavior unless we allow it. No one makes us do anything. We are either driven by our own fear of being caught or fear of the intimidation of others.
Those who are easily offended are easily controlled by others. Those who are strong are not easily offended and are in charge of their own emotions and actions.
The weakest people are those who are continually looking for things to feel insulted or wounded. They cannot feel whole unless they are accusing others of wrong as they look down their noses at anyone who cannot be controlled by their outbursts of anger or covert rudeness.
Those who spend a lot of time ruminating on who has wronged them, who does not measure up and who to be jealous of are diminishing their growth remaining emotional and spiritual infants until they confess it to be cleansed.
There is deliverance from the anger associated with gossip and misjudging others, it is through confessing it and asking God to change their character replacing the old man with the new man who is full of love, kindness, empathy and every other good thing that comes from Christ. Christ must do this in us, no one can change themselves, if they try they will fall back into the old ways when they are too feeble to continue the facade.
When Christ changes us we are permanently changed and He begins a work of lifelong cleansing and changing of us until He takes us home.
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