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How to do with dealing with Destructive people.
This is the hardest one of all.
How do you love people who intentionally hurt you?
Who are mean.
Who are hateful.
Who are manipulative.
When people hurt us we have two natural tendencies.
Remember it and retaliate.
First we remember it.
We stockpile it in our mind.
We put it back in the database and say, I’m never forgetting that one.
I’m never letting them off the hook.
I’m going to watch them from now on.
We remember it.
We rehearse it over and over and over.
The second thing we do is we retaliate.
We want to get even.
But that’s not what the Bible says.
Love takes a step up.
The Bible says “Love keeps no record of wrongs.”
So what does that mean?
How do I respond to the people who have hurt me in my life?
How do I handle all of those wounds, those pains, those hurts that I’ve stockpiled back there in my memory?
Here’s what you do.
You don’t repeat it, you delete it.
Wipe it out of the memory bank.
Let it go.
Forgive it and get on with your life.
Don’t repeat it.
What do I mean by that?
Typically when we get hurt we repeat it three ways.
We repeat it emotionally in our minds.
We repeat it relationally as a weapon.
And we repeat it practically and verbally in telling other people.
First we repeat it in our mind by going over and over and over it in your mind.
We rehearse it.
We’ve talked about this so many times.
How resentment never helps you.
It only hurts you.
Resentment is self-destructive.
It is emotional suicide.
It is like taking fire in your heart.
It will destroy you.
When you hold on to a grudge, when you hold on to a hurt, you hold on to a bitterness, you are not hurting that person from your past.
You’re only hurting yourself.
In fact you are allowing them to continue to hurt you in the present.
Your past is past.
It’s over.
It can’t hurt you unless you choose to allow it.
And the way you allow it to hurt you is by remembering it over and over.
Every time you remember and rehash and rehearse and go over it again in your mind you get hurt again.
That’s dumb.
That’s not smart.
That’s not using your brain the way God intended for you to use it.
Resentment only perpetuates the pain.
It never heals.
It never solves anything.
So we repeat it over and over in our mind.
The second way we repeat it is we repeat it in fights, in relationships.
We use it as wedges, as weapons.
You did this, but you did that.
Remember when you did that?
But you did this!
You pile it all back up again.
The third way we repeat it is we repeat it to other people.
We talk to others.
That’s called gossip.
We tell everybody else.
We don’t talk to God.
We don’t talk to the person.
We talk to everybody else about the pain.
We want to try to line up people on our side so that we’re better and they’re bad and they’re hated as much by other people as they’re hated by us.
All three of those are destructive, damaging, and self-defeating.
You’re only hurting yourself by repeating it in your mind, by repeating it over and over in conversations and using it as a wedge and by repeating it to other people.
Don’t repeat it.
Delete it.
“Love keeps no record of wrongs.”
Let me show you three verses about these three things.
First you don’t rehearse it over in your mind.
“Do not bear a grudge against others.
But settle your differences with them so you will not commit a sin because of them.”
How is that possible?
How do I commit a sin because of them if I keep a grudge?
Psychology study after psychology study has proven that whatever you rehearse you begin to resemble.
Uh-oh!
Whatever you think about most that’s what you move toward.
If all you think about is how much you’ve been hurt in the past, you’re moving to the past.
If you focus on the future, you move toward the future.
If you focus on the promises of God, you move toward the promises of God.
If you focus on potential, you move toward the potential.
But if you focus on your pain, you’re moving toward your pain.
And whatever you rehearse you will eventually begin to resemble.
I will never be like my father!
I will never be like my mother!
I will never… Guess what?
The very fact that you’re focused on it means that’s what you’re moving toward.
So he says you’re only hurting yourself by repeating it over and over in your mind.
The second thing is you don’t want to repeat it over and over in arguments.
“Love forgets mistakes.
[You don’t keep bringing them up.
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