“Drive out the mocker,
and out goes strife; quarrels and insults are ended.” – Proverbs 22:10
Recently on Good Friday I visited my
brothers’ house. In the evening I had a chance to be with the children of my
eldest brother. His son was 7 years old and his daughter was 5 years old. My
eldest brother went to meet a doctor with his wife and his son. So I and my
elder brother were playing with his 5 year old daughter. She was so happy to
play with us and she was telling lot of stories to us.
At one point of time she was talking
about a cartoon movie and she could remember all the characters of that movie.
As she was talking about that I asked her about some Biblical characters and
then I asked whether she pray to Jesus daily.
She could not lie to me by saying
yes and so she didn’t spoke anything. After a few seconds she started to answer
my question with a reason saying, “In my house...” Before she completed the
sentence my elder brother made a funniest remark on my eldest brother using her
words.
It was a funniest remark and so we
both laughed. We never thought what she will think and so we laughed loudly.
Suddenly she became angry and said, “You people are making fun of me and my
dad. So you people are not the children of Jesus and you both will go to hell.”
Saying these words, she left the
room with anger and went to my parents who were in the other room. After few
minutes my eldest brother returned and she ran to him and told all that
happened and again said that we will go to hell.
My eldest brother knows the way we
used to make fun of each other and so he tried to calm down his 5 year old
daughter but her anger never got reduced on that night.
We never had any intention to hurt
her but our mockery led her to get angry. Since she is a little child she
forgot that incident the very next day and spoke to my elder brother in a
normal way. Since I returned to my place the same night in which she got angry
I could not speak to her.
There were times in our life we make
fun of other people and provoke their anger. Bible says that when a mocker goes
out, strife will also go out. When he leaves quarrels and insults will end.
Remember if you mock at others you
might become a reason for quarrel and strife. Your words might insult others
and that might lead to a severe wound in their heart. So do not ever mock at
someone.
If you are a child of Jesus Christ,
you should put an end to that habit today itself. Do not be a reason for
someone’s wound. You have to speak the words of peace to others and not the
words of insult.
In 2 Kings 2:23-25, we can read that
some boys made mocking remarks at Elisha. Elisha got angry and he called down a
curse on them. What happened when Elisha cursed them? Two bears came out of the
woods and mauled forty two of the boys who made mocking remarks at Elisha.
If you join with a group of people
to mock someone and if that particular person got hurt, you will have the
effect of their curse in your life. So be careful in what you speak and what
you do.
My dear young friends, if you want
to have a peaceful relationship with someone, do not ever insult them and do
not mock at them for any reason. Then your relationship will be filled with God’s
peace and happiness. God be with you.
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