August 20: Delight and Goodwill.
Self-Destructive Feelings of Bitterness.
"If I have rejoiced at my enemy's misfortune or gloated over the trouble that came to him....then let briers come up instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.--Job 31:29, 40, NIV
BITTER FEELINGS...are foreign to the spirit of Christ.--Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, 51.
Jesus, when reviled, abused, and insulted, did not retaliate. "Who, when He was reviled, reviled not again." When the cruelty of man caused Him to suffer painful stripes and wounds, He threatened not, but committed Himself to Him who judgeth righteously....Is the servant greater than his master? Christ has given us His life as a pattern, and we dishonor Him when we become jealous of every slight, and are ready to resent every injury, supposed or real. It is not an evidence of a noble mind to be prepared to defend self, to preserve our own dignity. We would better suffer wrongfully a hundred times than wound the soul by a spirit of retaliation, or by giving vent to wrath.--Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, 426.
No resentment must come into our hearts. When reviled, we must not revile again. O jealousy and evil surmising, what mischief have ye wrought! how have ye turned friendship and love into bitterness and hatred! We must be less proud, less sensitive, have less self-love, and be dead to self-interest.--Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, 566.
Do not rejoice when your enemy falls,
And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles;
lest the Lord see it, and it displease Him,
And He turn away His wrath from Him.
--Proverbs 24:17, 18, NKJV
Self-Destructive Feelings of Bitterness.
"If I have rejoiced at my enemy's misfortune or gloated over the trouble that came to him....then let briers come up instead of wheat and stinkweed instead of barley.--Job 31:29, 40, NIV
BITTER FEELINGS...are foreign to the spirit of Christ.--Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, 51.
Jesus, when reviled, abused, and insulted, did not retaliate. "Who, when He was reviled, reviled not again." When the cruelty of man caused Him to suffer painful stripes and wounds, He threatened not, but committed Himself to Him who judgeth righteously....Is the servant greater than his master? Christ has given us His life as a pattern, and we dishonor Him when we become jealous of every slight, and are ready to resent every injury, supposed or real. It is not an evidence of a noble mind to be prepared to defend self, to preserve our own dignity. We would better suffer wrongfully a hundred times than wound the soul by a spirit of retaliation, or by giving vent to wrath.--Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, 426.
No resentment must come into our hearts. When reviled, we must not revile again. O jealousy and evil surmising, what mischief have ye wrought! how have ye turned friendship and love into bitterness and hatred! We must be less proud, less sensitive, have less self-love, and be dead to self-interest.--Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2, 566.
Do not rejoice when your enemy falls,
And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles;
lest the Lord see it, and it displease Him,
And He turn away His wrath from Him.
--Proverbs 24:17, 18, NKJV
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