Here and there, you will come across headlines in the streets that the people you bare your soul to help are painting you as the bad guy.
Maybe you invested your money, time, and prayer for 15 years or so, but they are telling people the opposite. They are actually saying you took advantage of them, or you stole their money and molested them. To be honest, as people, we always feel the urge to put the facts straight. We want to assert our boundaries once and for all. We should be careful not to go back and forth with these people in the process. This will drain you. In life, we should have a target and failure to have one, you will be the target.
But, where do you start? Do you know how many people were told? You know how juicy gossip travels!
When dealing with ungrateful people, you don't go vindictive or vengeful. Do you have all the time? Wisdom will tell you to play the long game. Continue to walk in your virtue. The way to respond to petty people is through dignified calmness.
Proverbs 26:4
Do not answer a fool according to his folly, Lest you also be like him.
This is how they will be exposed, not by your hand, though. Because they are like predators who must always have prey to devour, they will lie on another person, most probably their comrades in arms and boom you are vindicated. Slowly, people you tried to convince will come to you to fight in your corner. If you remain true, God will avenge you!
Deuteronomy 32:35
Vengeance is Mine, and recompense; Their foot shall slip in due time; For the day of their calamity is at hand, And the things to come hasten upon them.'
If you try to answer to gossip, you will appear defensive, as if you are guilty. To remain sweet-spirited, bitterness has proved to have stopped many of God's generals from growth. Many generous people are retired generals from God's service due to bitterness. They no longer want to help the needy again.They have vowed not to, just because of these toxic people. If you are that person, you shall consider going back to your kindness again. This time with wisdom!
Again, you will cease from fighting unnecessary battles. Which God has assumed to be His. Some people feel important by being your enemies. You shall not give them that relevance. You shall be wiser.
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