Have you ever really thought about the expression, “To take offense”? Wrapped up in this phrase are the feelings of being wronged, insulted, or attacked by someone…but to “take” offense means that we have to first choose or accept what has been said or done as a willful gesture of disrespect. And many times what we thought was intentional was far from it. Our ears are deceived in hearing “things” that were never really said. Our mind perceives wrongly that words spoken by others are meant to be an insult when it wasn’t that way at all. And our eyes think we see someone shunning us when in fact they didn’t even realize we were there. Taking offense often can blow things way out of proportion and cause unreconcilable riffs in relationships, work, and at Church. But we don’t have to “take” offense when we rather rely on wisdom, self control & forgiveness instead.
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