Jesus tells us to love other people. He tells us that if someone strikes us on our left cheek, then we should turn and offer them the right cheek too. He is the perfect being. He was able to do this easily, because he knew the path laid out for him.
As Christians, then, how is it that we find it so hard to follow Jesus’ example. We get hurt by someone, and our immediate, gut response is to try and hurt them back. We have to consciously stop and think, before we can make a decision to let a wrong done to us slide.
God made us in his image, and yet we are so different from that image, because we are all so flawed. We all believe ourselves, and our own feelings and needs to be the most important things in the world, often causing us to forget the real, and more important issues.
When a friend only contacts you because they want something, it is easy to get angry and hurt, and to not want to help them. It has happened to me so many times, but God teaches us that we should help them. They are only human too. The fact is, they probably don’t even realise that they’ve hurt you. The best thing to do in that situation, we are told is to calmly tell the person that they have hurt us and explain why, and to help them all the same. The answer, God says, is not to bitch and slander them behind their backs.
Sometimes, in this world, we find it difficult to confront people openly, because we don’t want to upset them, but God wants us all to be better people, and it is only by helping each other that we can truly achieve this, so the next time someone hurts and upsets you, don’t let it fester. Don’t bitch about them behind their backs, but talk to them. Chances are, they didn’t even realise they’d upset you.
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