Violence Is In Fact Not The Answer

Through recent encounters I’ve come to the conclusion that God has quite the sense of humor or at least from my point of view that’s what I would call it. I’ve really been working on love lately. No not in a romantic sense but rather showing God’s love towards all people even when I feel like I shouldn’t have to show it towards people. For me when people show bias, are hypocritical, are just plan rude or make me angry, I automatically want to punch them in the face… yes you read it correctly. I’ve never actually punched anyone in the face but the thought runs through my mind quite often. That along with a whole array of statements to tell said person off or put them in their place. From a worldly stand point this reaction of mine is perfectly acceptable in given situations and even promoted as my right; however, from a Christian standpoint that is suppose to reflect the love of Christ, I would say this is the wrong reaction. Of course I’m only human… right? What else does a human do when someone is an absolute jerk to them or says things that shouldn’t be said?  This is true I am only human, but God started speaking to me that I needed to change my mindset and since I clearly couldn’t do that on my own, my life started revolving around constant prayer. There are times when no lie I have to be among certain people for hours at a time and I am constantly praying in my head or calling on Jesus. That’s when I realized that if that’s what it took, then that was ok. As time progressed situations would arise where something would happen or a comment would be said that in a worldly standpoint I had every right to get mad; however, I would be in awe… literally something would happen and I would not know what to think… My line began to change from “I really just want to punch them in the face” to “I don’t even know what to say to that.” Talk about irritating until I realized that was God’s way of training me not to react. If I couldn’t develop a response, I couldn’t react. Clever I know. Humorous? When you think about it or know me very well.. incredibly. It’s just like the concept if you don’t have anything nice to say don’t say anything at all only if I didn’t have something nice to say, I didn’t have anything else to say.