Proverbs 29:21(Message Bible)
If you let people treat you like a doormat, you’ll be quite forgotten in the end.
Christianity and many other religions teach about humility, forgiveness, and long suffering as it relates to other people and governments systems.
But God doesn’t want us to surrender or succumb to abuse or constant mistreatment.
The bible and other writings can be used by some to control others, controlled by systematically or controlled by an individuals.
If you are in an abusive relationship, physically, mentally, emotionally, or sexually, you don’t have to take that abuse. There is nothing Godly about that.
Now some may take abuse for a higher religious or political cause as a mortar or something, but that is their choice. They may believe that that is God’s will for them.
Some would say that Jesus says to turn the other cheek, Matthew 5:39.
But even Jesus went in the temple with a whip and turn over tables, which he did twice.
Luke 22:36(Message Bible)
He said, “This is different. Get ready for trouble. Look to what you’ll need; there are difficult times ahead. Pawn your coat and get a sword.
Ecclesiastes 3:8(ERV)
There is a time for war and a time for peace.
Just because we are God fearing doesn’t mean that we should be aquescent to abuse and mistreatment by a system or an individual.
I believe in prayer, but I also understand when people have to do physically things like vote and protest, and some even go to war to create change.
An oppressor or abuser rarely can be reasoned with.
“The tyrant will always find a pretext for his tyranny”
From an Aesop fable, The Wolf and the Lamb.
Why would a man abuse a woman in any way, why would a woman abuse a man in any way, why would a government abuse its citizens, who knows.
If you know that the elderly, kids or pets are abusive in any way, by parents or whomever, report it to authorities, they can not speak for themselves most times.
We don’t have to be doormats for people. We can leave an abusive relationship, with support and wisdom because that can be hard and dangerous, lean on family and friends.
We can resist oppressors in governments and systems. I don’t advocate violence, but I see why some have to revert to that , hopefully it never comes to that, but unfortunately, sometimes it does.
Be safe, be wise, be patient, but never accept being a doormat. You deserve better.
Peace
The I AM Principle 