Luke 7:34 The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!

They said that of Jesus. Imagine what they are saying about me? People talk and there is nothing you can do to change that. Better behavior on our part will be met with words like self-righteous and hypocrite. Jesus warned us of that during His teachings.

Matthew 22:6 And the remnant took his servants, and entreated them spitefully, and slew them.

We are the Lord’s servants and all they do and say has nothing to do with who you are or what you have done. They have done this to our Lord.

Matthew 25:40 And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

Some of my disciples have tried to come to my defense and I asked them not to do that. The Holy Spirit does not need our help in dealing with the enemies of Christ. We tend to get defensive but stop and think about that. That is a response in the flesh of the person we were before we came to Christ.

Romans 8:36-37 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

When people talk about us it might not feel like we are victorious but in Christ we are victorious.

Take shelter in this and do not strike back. The words of their own lips will someday convict them.

Proverbs 6:2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.

Let us not get caught up in that ourselves.