The worst forms of political correctness emerge out of this and destroy real relationship possibilities. When people have to speak so carefully around us as to not offend us, they really can’t show up in their full person!

Reflect on the relationships Jesus had with the community around Him. He spoke forcefully whether on the positive or the negative, he did not hold back Truth or Grace!
The Bible tells us that love covers a multitude of sins! If much of your time and energy is spent on living as an offended person in this world how does that measure up to the demands of loving other people despite their sins against us!

Love and maturity walk hand-in-hand. Maturity means completed, finished as we grow towards being like Christ. We cannot achieve any form of maturity without love as to act maturely means to act with love and to act with love means to act maturely. A self-centred world can never be a Christ centred world!

James 4:1 says,

"What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within you?"

As a Christian, when we are offended we want to move into the realm of forgiveness, to do otherwise is to enter the realm of judgement and we do not belong there. There is only one plan that works for offences that we carry and that is releasing them and releasing the offender!

When you do an audit of offences both against you and that you have caused others, you must give God the right to search your heart and to test you. Only He can see with absolute clarity our hearts which our own games will hide from us and from others, or maybe not so well from others.  Tomorrow we look at the other side of the equation.

Meditation: Am I willing to really know the truth about me from God when it comes to my relationships with others? Yes, the same as yesterday. This requires deep meditation, you might say prayerful meditation, "Search me oh God."