As a girl that grew up in an environment where it seems like everything is acceptable, somehow I still managed to know what is right from wrong and I never tried to justify anything bad that I do, instead I just choose to listen to corrections even though they were most times annoying. At some point I had the freedom to do whatever I wanted but then in all of these I still tried my best to avoid the wrong things and focus more on the good things.
As you can rightly imagine, it wasn’t easy at all and I must say I fell most times too, I did some things that I know I shouldn’t have done. Well, for today’s post, I’d be focusing more on one particular code that I won’t break except it’s a mistake. Due to the fact that I loved around people that never saw anything wrong with abusing the next person with every slight mistake, most times I was tempted to do the same. That continued for a while until one faithful day.
It was a bible study day and luckily for me I was at the service that day and the teaching was centered on calling someone a Fool and its consequences in the light of the scriptures. I was so marveled to know that the Bible mentioned that who ever calls anyone a fool will go to hell fire. At that point I immediately made up my mind to repent of that way of life. I was always very quick to call someone a fool then once they made a mistake or does something silly.
In our world today, especially in a country like mine, it is very easy for you to see someone abuse another over some thing very trivial. It is now a way of life, to some, they don’t even know when they abuse while to others they don’t see it as anything because it has already become a norm. Luckily for me, I heard something contrary to that norm and I believed it because it made a lot of sense and even since then I’ve tried to avoid abusing anyone in anyway. The worst I do is ask them what is wrong with them and most times it sounds abusive so I try not to even ask it in those cases when it can be perceived as an insult.
I became so against using abusive words on people to the point that I’m very sensitive when I hear an abuse. A lot of us are guilty of this and that is because of one out of two reasons. Some of us were privileged to grow in a place where abusing someone is very common so it quickly became a part of us too and the last reason is we don’t know it is wrong to abuse someone. So the one code you’d hardly find me breaking is the code of abusing someone, whether or not it is a joke. I believe in the saying that we should do unto others what we want them to do to us.
I won’t like it if I’m abused so I always try my best not to abuse others because I know I don’t want to be abused. Just as short as some abusive words are, they are very capable of hindering us from what is ahead. Besides the fact that it is in the scriptures, I’m not a huge fan of abuse because I know those words can defy me in ways that I might not even know. I choose not to break this particular code because it is totally worth it.
This is my response to the Hivelearners topic on ”YOUR MORAL CODE”.
