The customer is always right. We’ve all heard that. I had a friend whose boss told them this very thing. One day a customer comes in and has a bad starter that he had purchased from their store. My friend asked the man, “Do you want a new starter?” To which the man replied, “No!” “Do you want your money back?” “No!” Then he’d start griping about the bad starter again. My friend asked him these same questions over and over and each time the man gave the same response, then he would just start griping again. Finally, the boss walks up and asks the man the same questions and gets the same, “No,” response that my friend got. The boss picked up the starter, walked to the front door and pitched the starter across the parking lot and told the man, “Then get out of my store!” After the man left my friend asked, “What happened to the customer always being right?” The boss responded, “I couldn’t please him.”
I tell you this story to express that nobody is always right. If you walk around thinking that you’re always right, then you, my friend, are sadly mistaken. Honestly if you carry this attitude around, believe it or not, a lot of people do not like talking to you much.
Why is this important in the kingdom? Because, if you carry yourself like this in natural things it will affect people listening to you when you try to share Jesus with them. You can try and share the truth of the gospel with them, but if they have gotten used to your “always right” attitude they may not listen. Your attitude may have placed a bitter taste in their mouth, so it taints everything you say.
With this in mind I will say be humble, kind and understanding. Remember that people don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
So be teachable, you don’t know everything. Be quick to listen and slow to speak (James 1:19 ISV). Love people more than you love being right.
Proverbs 3:7 KJV Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.
Proverbs 18:24 KJV A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.