here is another one. how do you respond when someone disagrees with you? remember, meekness is strength under control.
the fact is, you can't please everybody in life. just about the time you get crowd a satisfied, crowd b gets upset. one minute you're the hero, the next minute you're the zero. disagreements happen so you need to learn to be tender without surrender.
the test of maturity is how do you handle disagreeable people, people who irritate you, people who like to contradict you, people who like to get in arguments, like to quarrel with you.
you have three alternatives:
you can retreat in fear,
you can attack in anger, or
you can respond in love.
you can retreat in fear.
listen. meekness is not compromising your convictions. you can be tender without surrender. it's not being passive, being a doormat, giving in, always letting the other person have their own way. that's not meekness, that's weakness.
just a thought from the front porch…
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