People disagree on things; its just the way it is. Most of the time we all think we are right when arguing with someone. But, what about that point-in-time that you realize you are WRONG. That is an uncomfortable moment, indeed.
Question: What do you do when that happens? Get very angry, find fault or belittle the other person? Perhaps, you just say something you shouldn’t or just walk away, loudly proclaiming that you will never speak to them again.
All this sounds a bit childish, doesn’t it? But, what if at that very moment when you realize you are wrong, the other person tries to understand WHY you believe you are right and just wants to talk about it? What then? Will you listen? Consider a moment, these words spoken by God through the prophet Isaiah…
Isaiah 1 ( World English Bible )
[18] ”Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
God just doesn’t win an “argument” with him, he gives you a way out – reason. Why? Because HE loves you and wants the very best for you, that’s why. No matter what you have done, no matter how awful you have been, God still wants the best for you. There is hope and a future ahead of you. A passage from the book of 1st Corinthians comes to mind:
1 Corinthians 13 ( WEB )
[8] Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with. [9] For we know in part, and we prophesy in part; [10] but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with. [11] When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things. [12] For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known. [13] But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.
There you have it, the answer to being wrong is being right (in the love of God). And what do you do about it? Change of course. Paul writes to the Colossians:
Colossians 3 ( WEB )
God. [2] Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth. [3] For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. [4] When Christ, our life, is revealed, then you will also be revealed with him in glory.
[5] Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; [6] for which things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience. [7] You also once walked in those, when you lived in them; [8] but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth. [9] Don’t lie to one another, seeing that you have put off the old man with his doings, [10] and have put on the new man, who is being renewed in knowledge after the image of his Creator, [11] where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.
[12] Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance; [13] bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do. [14] Above all these things, walk in love, which is the bond of perfection.
When you are wrong, listen to God, change and you will be the better for it.
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