Psalms 119:165 Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

I love the Word, I love the law of love, which is the New Testament law. I am not old school. But I have to tell you that nothing takes me back to school like being offended. I am not offended, my sensibilities are offended. That only means I am sensitive and that sensitivity will and does affect my peace.

When I see people who are intentionally offensive, because they have the right to be themselves, I ask myself, “What went wrong in this child’s life?” They were not born this way. Something happened in their lives to cause them to act out in this manner. Children do not act, they re-act.

Being offensive is not an act, it is a reaction. Just as a child cries out in pain, the child in these adults cries out in pain. You don’t love me, so I will give you a reason not to love me. The offended becomes the offender.

Exodus 34:7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

That’s old school and somewhere this cycle has to be broken. Sadly when you see it, the damage has already been inflicted. The state cannot fix it. All they can do is break it even more. That is true because the law does not fix and repair, it only punishes.

Luke 5:30-31 But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.

Love must dwell with the offender and that will not happen if we cast them out of our lives.