The Opportunity of an Insult

No one enjoys being humiliated. Unfortunately, humiliation is a part of everyone’s life, especially during middle school and high school, and it’s not uncommon for people’s attempts to humiliate you to come through insults (roasts). Generally, when we are insulted, we have this urge to make a comeback and insult them.

In Oswald Chambers’ devotional book My Utmost for His Highest I read about a revolutionary way of thinking: looking at each insult and effort to humiliate as a glorious opportunity to display the Gospel. Continue Reading...