The Unoffendable Heart预览

It is a biblical fact that if you are alive on earth you will be offended. Jesus Himself tells us that in Luke 17:1, “Then He said to the disciples, ‘It is impossible that no offenses should come, but woe to him through whom they do come!’” That’s why learning to have an unoffendable heart is so essential. Your physical heart has four chambers and so does your spiritual heart. In order to live unoffendable, you have to look at each one of those chambers and the first is the chamber of expectations.

Most of your offense comes from broken expectations. Offense is the surprise brought on by the expectation that people will not hurt you. As a Christian that isn’t going to be your reality. In John 15:18-20 Jesus says that people hated Him, therefore, Christian, they will hate you! And if they obeyed Jesus, they will obey you! So when you talk to your family, friends, or co-workers about Jesus, expecting them to listen to you and they don’t, it’s because they don’t listen to Jesus! You have to stop trying to give a Christian standard to somebody who isn’t Christian! 

Romans 15:7 says to welcome everyone as Christ has accepted us, broken, yet we don’t want people until they’re all cleaned up! We’re mad at the person that just sinned yesterday when the reality is we just sinned three weeks ago! John 8:7, “Let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.” Anytime you go to stone someone with words, you’re just murdering them for a sin that’s different than yours because offense is the identity stethoscope of the heart and reveals far more about you than it does them! God will use the most hurtful things that have ever been said or done to you in your life as a stethoscope to hear the bruised, broken parts of your identity so He can reveal who you are and whose you are.