Finger on the trigger!! Finger on the trigger!! Which is your trigger finger? What does it take to trigger your emotions? People who know people intimately, know what triggers people off. If I talk about men should have more than one wife...I can trigger someone off. I know who. If I talk about marriage I can trigger another person off. I know who. If I talk about an issue I know which issue to talk about in order to get certain responses. Normally family members know what topic will trigger the other member of the family off and make a person go into an emotional spin. Jesus pushed a few triggers in his discussions. To the Pharisees Mark 2: 5. The ultimate result was they killed Jesus. They were triggered when Jesus called them out for hypocrisy (Mth 24) . To the rich man Lk 18: 22. The topic of money triggered him. To the ones arguing over inheritance Lk 12: 13-21. To the widow touching Jesus; faith close to Jesus, triggered his compassion Lk 8: 43-48. Jesus knew the triggers to push in order to get the desired response. People generally know to push some buttons, to get a desired response; but I don't know if they know it knowingly or by fluke. I like to know my adversary or gentler if you will...I like to know the person I am up against, in a conversation, in a discussion. In a message. I know which trigger to push, in order for the feet to really shuffle and the body change positions. Interestingly though only perhaps a handful of people know how to set me off or pull my trigger in order to get the effect that they know/want to get from me. My dad knew what would trigger me off. My first wife knew what to say to trigger me off. I don't like when it's done to me. I therefore know that others don't like it as we are all made from the same batch of clay. So in life we really need to know the people around us. And we really know them, we know which trigger will get a response. Therefore please don't purposefully push someone's trigger. I mean...what do you expect, except an explosion. A trigger for me is in a certain situation not a word...but more of an action. A new school year. First month. Staff problems...triggers me off. But a word triggers me off the deep end, is when you say…. “I look to you as a father”. Well, don't. I am not that old. Look to me as a brother or husband (that would trigger you off) Makes me feel...catchable. Father. Really?? So archaic and anti-Scriptural. Jesus said call no man your father Mth 23: 9. A father figure. Well, make a statue. That triggers me off. Want to hurt me...say it. But then I just might push your trigger. So be careful it may rebound back to you. Try it. But then don't cry after. The golden rule...do to others Mth 7: 12... There are times when we may inadvertently press someone's trigger. True. There are other times we must press someone's trigger yet it is not to them we are talking about or even to. Eg...I preach on immorality. I must. I must. I must. Yet I know it presses triggers. But I must talk on the subject for the sake of others. That is an example of a necessary trigger. Talk about seniors and whilst others lap it up, oh..yayay..discount…it send me into vomiting convulsions. I get so upset when I buy something, and they ask..do you have a card sir? I reply yes...lots...do you? They mean a seniors discount card. Arrggghh sends me into a spin. I can just imagine members of the SNL group having a good laugh at that! It’s one of the triggers in my life. Get to know each other. But don't use statements or actions that trigger people into a spin. Do not use triggers to inflict pain. Be sensitive to what others feel. True, sometimes saying something cannot be avoided. But sometimes it can. Mark 3: 35 Jesus said, brother, sister, mother; but not father, husband or wife. Why? Don’t pull someone’s trigger, if you know it is their trigger.
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