People can be People
It is so hard to like some people
Jesus never told us we had to like people
He showed us to be kind, forgiving, loving, but liking, nah.
Some people are not likeable. They don’t even try to be.
The same goes for you: not everyone will like you.
Some people don’t like us. That does not help anything to know that
because it is difficult for us to understand how they feel.
But when we don’t like someone, it can be rough.
Keep a check in your heart and try not to focus on your dislike,
making your list of wrongs, as we are instructed not to do in 1 Corinthians 13.
Help us, O help us, Lord.
Some people like everyone, pretty much.
The annoying things don’t bother them as much.
There are some people who just talk about things we have no interest in,
things we find distasteful.
Some of us have been sheltered
and have had a smaller people experience than others,
due to life choices or circumstances of where they live,
where they work and their life experiences.
People who have not had solid people in their lives,
especially when they were growing up, can be less adaptable to people in life.
They may have never learned how to overlook things
or maybe they have been in the habit of criticizing.
Criticizing doesn’t help much.
It tends to makes things worse, makes it harder to be kind or gracious.
When we aren’t supposed to make a list of wrongs,
criticizing makes us concentrate on those things that irritate us.
Sharing our irritations with others so they can commiserate with us…
It’s all bad. We shouldn’t do any of it.
Help us, O help us, Lord.
Those of us who have grace and kindness are going to please the Lord.
Help us to have more grace and kindness even when people try our limits.
The battles are getting worse, harder, more darkness is in the world,
and then if we combine that with our flesh and do not demonstrate the love God asks of us, we are missing it.
People will be people. Let God’s word rise above our lofty thoughts.
I leave you with this:
And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another,
even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you. Ephesians 4:32