Knowing Him Daily

26.February.2026

We are almost to the finish line of this week. Six days in and we’ve covered a lot of ground together. Today’s topic is one that I am personally most passionate about because I have paid the highest personal price in this area more than perhaps any other on this list.

Offense.

If the enemy had a favorite tool, and I believe he does, this would be it. Not because it’s the most dramatic, but because it’s the most effective and the most deceptive. It doesn’t always announce itself. It doesn’t always feel like sin. In fact, most of the time it feels completely justified. Reasonable, even. And that is precisely what makes it so dangerous.

“It is impossible that no offenses should come.” Luke 17:1, NKJV

Jesus didn’t say offenses might come. He said they will come. That means the question was never whether you would encounter them. The question is what you do with them when they arrive.

I’ve lost years to offense. I want to be that transparent with you. Not days, not weeks, but years. Relationships that mattered. Opportunities that passed.

Seasons I can’t get back, all because I held onto something that was costing me everything while I convinced myself I was the one who had been wronged. And the worst part? I was right. In many of those situations I was absolutely, factually correct about what had been done to me.

But being right and staying free are not always the same thing, and you have to decide which one matters more to you.

“The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, and his glory is to overlook a transgression.” Proverbs 19:11, NKJV

His glory. Not his weakness, not his naivety, not his doormat moment. His glory. There is something that God calls honorable about the person who has every right to be offended and chooses freedom instead.

Here is what offense actually does. It doesn’t hurt the person who offended you. In most cases they have moved on completely and have no idea you’re still carrying it. What it does is build a wall between you and the Father, between you and your assignment, between you and the very people He is trying to reach through you. It defiles the ground around you.

“Looking carefully lest anyone fall short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up cause trouble, and by this many become defiled.”
Hebrews 12:15, NKJV

A root of bitterness doesn’t stay contained to you. It spreads. It affects the people closest to you, the ones who never even knew what happened. That’s the part we don’t talk about enough.
And then there is this one, the one Jesus said in a context that should make every believer stop and pay very close attention.

“And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses.” Mark 11:25, NKJV

If you have anything against anyone, not just the big betrayals. Not just the dramatic falling outs. Anything. Against anyone. That includes the quiet resentment you’ve been carrying toward someone who never knew they hurt you. It goes both ways.

That covers the person you’ve simply written off. That covers the low buzz of irritation you’ve normalized so thoroughly that you’ve stopped recognizing it as unforgiveness.

If I knew what was coming, I would fight for my freedom in this area with everything I had. Not because I’m a pushover. Not because what was done didn’t matter. But because I refuse to hand the enemy a weapon that effective and let him use it against my relationship with the Father, my assignment, and the people around me.

Staying free is not a one time decision. It is a daily one. Some days it is an hourly one. But every single time you choose it, you are choosing Him over the offense, and that is always the right choice.

Stay free. It is worth it. He is worth it. And…you are too!

Father ~
I don’t want to carry one more day of offense that is costing me more than I’ve been willing to admit. Show me every place I’ve held something against someone, whether I’ve called it that or not, and give me the grace to lay it down right now. I choose freedom over being right. I choose You over the wound. Heal what needs healing and restore what the enemy has stolen through my unforgiveness.

In Jesus’ name,
Amen

Make today count and see you tomorrow.