Don’t Provoke Me!

Wouldn’t it be something if we could just tell the world, “Don’t provoke me!” The world would listen, of course. The world wouldn’t provoke us to be irritable, angry, hurt, offended, bitter, envious, vengeful, prideful, scared, etc. The world wouldn’t do anything whatsoever to cause us to be upset, to want to react, to retaliate, to lash out, to withdraw, well, anything at all for that matter. We would never be provoked to fall into any kind of sin in our hearts, out of our mouths, or in our...