It doesn't hurt to improvise your way through life. But in doing so, it requires patience, prayer, understanding and humility as your foundation. Life itself can present a plethora of unexpected challenges from one day to the next. Refusing to use those fundementals as your platform through life, lowers your ceiling to sustaining peace and happiness.
If someone says your incorrect in your assessment of them, do not respond with anger. Ask yourself this, why would someone's assessment trigger such a reaction? Just because a person makes an assessment of you that's never been said, doesn't render them incorrect. It could simply mean they see something others didn't see. Or perhaps others didn't see the need to tell you and remained silent about it. It's a plethora of ways this can go. One person assessment of you does not necessarily define you, but it can also be an accurate assessment as well. Some people just have better insight than others, think about that. Often times it can be certain terminology people do not associate themselves with that triggers an angry reaction despite it's truth.
Exercising humility is a very noble thing in the eyes of God. However, it's an unspoken truth that comes with humility, and that's honesty. Meaning, many would opt to remain silent rather than being honest in efforts to spare a person feelings. Question is, are you actually sparing them, or are you enabling them, it's a difference? Because if your enabling them, it renders you just as guilty for permitting wrong to continue, which makes you an accessory to wrongfulness. God would be displeased. What would Jesus do?
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