Life is not about being right; it's about allowing ourselves to be who we are and accepting others as they are. It's not who's right but what's right ! This concept can be difficult for many of us if have lived in systems or with mind sets that functioned on the "right-wrong" justice scale. The person who was right was okay; the person who was wrong was shamed. All value and worth may have depended on being right; to be wrong meant annihilation of self and self-esteem or healthy self love.
We must learn to strive for love in our relationships, not for have superiority. This is the way that Christ modeled for us.(John 13:34-35) If there was ever a person who could have stood on the mantra "right is might" it was the sinless Son of God. But instead His security was in His relationship with His Father. He knew He was loved and therefore He gave love and lived love. (John 17).
We are not to be door mats for people to walk on and clean the mud from their feet. We have a responsibility to set boundaries and take care of ourselves and realize that what others do is their business and needs to be right only for them. Our first response-ablilty is to be right with Christ.
It's tempting to rest in the superiority of being right and in analyzing other people's motives and actions, but more rewarding to look deeper. (I Cor.13)
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