Professional futbol (soccer) is a sport of skillful and agile players and fans with swinging emotions and strong allegiances. Passions over the sport run so high and deep that people have been injured and have even died in their wake. Athletes are mobbed, spit upon, threatened, and shouted at with vitriolic speech. Forward striker Michail Antonio shares above that love is his posture when people try to IRRITATE him—to make (someone) annoyed, impatient, or angry. When irritation is in play, its purpose is to stimulate or produce an active response. Though some fans desire to provoke a negative reaction in him, Antonio says he's only here to love. I wonder if someone trains celebrities how to respond to IRRITANTS - a thing that is continually annoying or distracting.
In the body, irritants cause inflammation or some other form of discomfort. The Cleveland Clinic says acute inflammation is a response to sudden body damage, like cutting your finger. To heal the cut, your body sends inflammatory cells to the injury. These cells start the healing process. Acute inflammation may last for a few hours to a few days. With Chronic inflammation, in diseases like Rheumatoid Arthritis, your body continues to send inflammatory cells even when there’s no outside danger. This can cause pain and severe damage to joints. Chronic inflammation is long term; it lasts for months to years. Is what's irritating you being used by God to heal? or by the enemy to cause long-term pain?
Scripture uses the word provoke—to deliberately make (someone) annoyed or angry. Paul wrote in Galatians 5 that Christ followers are to walk in the Spirit and display it's fruit: love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, gentleness/meekness, faithfulness and self control. He said that pride and jealousy can be at the root of provocations but, "24Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. 26Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other." Selah. | 
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