Originally posted on 2/26/2020 at https://www.crosswalk.com/faith/spiritual-life/biblical-ways-to-deal-with-difficult-people.html
As a Christian, God calls you to love your neighbor as yourself, but what do you do about those people in your life that are just so hard to love? Everyone has difficult people in their lives that can make obedience to this command a struggle.
Whether it’s someone who is rude to you, someone who has rejected you, someone who lies and gossips about you—or even just a person that you find extremely irritating to be around—God actually wants to use these people in your life to help you grow.
We can find some great examples of God doing this very thing in King David’s life.
Here are 4 ways that God used some difficult people in David’s life to help him grow and mature before he ever became king.
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