The Ability To Accept Correction Without Being Offended
Our ability to accept correction without being offended is directly proportional to our humility and wisdom. If we are only used to receiving compliments, and have come to think we can do no wrong, our lack of humility will probably keep us from being willing to accept even loving correction. Wisdom also dictates that we seriously consider spiritual rebuke. It will make a difference where we spend eternity!
Prov 9:8-9 Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
Prov 29:1 He, that being often reproved hardeneth his neck, shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.
Prov 5:12-13 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
Prov 10:17 He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction: but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
Prov 12:1 Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
Prov 15:5 A fool despiseth his father’s instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.
Prov 15:10 Correction is grievous unto him that forsaketh the way: and he that hateth reproof shall die.
Prov 15:12 A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.
Prov 27:5 Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Psalms 141:5 Let the righteous smite me; it shall be a kindness: and let him reprove me; it shall be an excellent oil, which shall not break my head: for yet my prayer also shall be in their calamities.
Prov 28:23 He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.
The hardest thing I’ve ever had to do in any of my public debates is tell homosexuals Lev 18:22-23 and 20:13-16 put gay sex in the same category as having sex with an animal. We expect them (those gay church members) to accept this gently made and kind rebuke without being offended, but we are not humble enough to accept a scriptural rebuke ourselves (“suffer the word of exhortation” – Heb 13:22) about a tenth as offensive?
How do you tell if some is criticizing you for the right reason? – https://bibledebates.wordpress.com/2020/08/20/how-do-you-tell-if-someone-is-criticizing-to-help-or-to-tear-down/
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