We ought not let childhood things negatively influence our behavior. It is not ours to look back at the slights we feel from our history, but to move on to our destiny.

We must learn to accept rebuke calmly, consider the objective content of the rebuke, be slow to take offense, but always be ready for repentance and reconciliation.

When we decide that we are “good Christians”, we have the tendency to develop either disdain or anger for those that are not, even as Moses showed his disdain for his fellow Israelites by calling them “rebels”. We have to be vigilant to be neither disdainful of nor angry with one another in order to overcome evil with good.