A some point we all have to make a choice to uphold what’s right, or to ignore what’s wrong.

I need some advice and I have decided to ask you all. What would you do if someone was subtly disparaging another person’s character? Would you tell the person being talked about? Would you confront the person doing the talking? Would you leave it alone and let it works itself out? I am struggling between these three options. There is a part of me that thinks I know the answer, but I genuinely don’t want to make the situation worse. I keep feeling that if I know what’s right just on the basis of right and wrong alone, I should always do what’s right. However, I want to do what’s right in the right way. So I have been praying for the answer. I have been contemplating this for a few days now and I am surprised at how easy it was for me to turn a bind eye at first, not because I didn’t see it, but because I just didn’t want to get involved. But lately my heart has been convicted by this thought: Wrong persists when just people do nothing. Ha! Writing this post has given me my answer. However, I still would like to know what you would do in this situation.

“If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them” (James 4:17).

So what am I thankful for today? That I am learning to do what’s right.