Are you willing to be deemed wrong, even when you know you are right?
Jesus was. He went to the cross knowing that everything he taught was right, truthful and eternal. Yet others accused Him of being wrong and a blasphemer.
Are you willing to relinquish the throne of being the law keeper and judge of others?
Jesus was. His life fulfilled the law but He said He judged no person who broke religious laws. He also broke many religious laws in an effort to show My love to people.
He was willing to be deemed wrong even when He knew He was right. Jesus was flexible, never rigid, never insisting on His own way as being right and others wrong. The fruit of His personality proved that He was right.
One of the attributes of love is never insisting on your own way, never insisting that you are right.
I asked you one time if you would rather be right or would you rather be righteous. You answered that you would rather be righteous.
I told you that being righteous means never insisting that you are right. Being righteous means walking in love and when there is a disagreement you show grace to others, allowing them the grace to be right when they are actually wrong.
If you are right in any matter, if you will refuse to be rigid in your opinion but allow the other person to possibly be right, I will prove who is right in the matter. If it is you who is right, it will be a sweet situation to be proven right. You must not gloat but be thankful that truth prevailed.
If you refuse to be rigid and allow the other person to think maybe he or she is right, you will eventually find the truth of the matter to be supportive of the veracity of one of you to a big degree.
When situations prove that you were wrong in a matter, if you were wrong in your opinion but you have been rigid about being right, you will be embarrassed about being wrong, rigid and unbending.
Being kind is being flexible, emotionally bending in every situation.
Rigidity is being stiff necked. You know what I taught about that through the prophets and through Jesus.
Love means never insisting on your own way, always being flexible in relation to others. That is one of My keys to keeping peace with all men.
If you will keep peace with all men, refusing to insist on your own way, I will prove your righteousness in the matter. You will glorify Me for My grace when truth prevails. Truth always prevails. You can count on that.
Love, God
I Corinthians 13:1-7; Deuteronomy 31:26-27; Psalm 75:5-7; Jeremiah 17:23; Matthew 5:6; Matthew 5:20; Matthew 6:33; Romans 1:17; Romans 4:3.
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