So, I went to work and came back and - |PoOf| - things happened I see. 
. But that is Ok, we have a God still here right?!!
My first thought was, "I wonder if we should check with Jesus on some of this? I'm sure we could find something written somewhere that could help." And now I am thinking, "I am sure we should check with Jesus on all of this, because His Word is to live and die by!"
Self-indulgence is a refusal to struggle, a refusal to make ourselves fit. We must be right ourselves in line with God in all things spiritually before we can help others to be right. Where are the Scriptures bouncing off the walls here in counsel?
I see the right and wrong arguments being mandated, but spiritual value has nothing to do with those arguments. One of the reasons we lose fellowship with God is that we will explain and vindicate ourselves; we will not let God hunt thru us and chase out the interests of self-will and self-assertion. Folks, I am not interested even in peace here, but rather the face of God, it is only there we see the right and wrong of it. I am interested in loving one another as Christ first loved us! Hey look Scripture! That is unconditionally and that is tantamount to impossible in our own strength.
Let me challenge us to come up with one Scripture the Lord lays on your heart to reconcile this issue - this is practical loving. And His Word would soothe my soul. Isn't that what we came here for? It is what I came for!
Ok, I know I am getting wordy here, but I also want to say, there is a difference between the human sympathy we give to a discouraged or broken-hearted person and what the Holy Spirit will do for them. We may sit down beside a broken-hearted person and pour out a flow of sympathy, and say how sorry we are for them, and tell them of other people with broken-hearts; but all that only makes them more submissive to being broken-hearted.
When Our Lord sympathizes with the heart broken by sin or sorrow, He binds it up and makes it a new heart, and the expectation of that heart ever after is from God. We must stay the course here in Christ folks. Let God be our refuge and our Master.
My verse is:
(Luke 6:31): ...New International Version (NIV)
31 Do to others as you would have them do to you.
But one needs to think about that before God speaks to us thru our spirits, for His Word is alive and Active - dividing bone and marrow - separating spirit from flesh. God wants us all to minister Himself to others here, are we looking for that? Have we submitted to that? Earnestly? And they all said - "AMEN! Lord, lead us into the valley of milk and honey once more! For it is not our will Lord, but Thine's we shall follow and lean into.". Ok, I threw the pencil down now ... I'm done. May we learn and forgive and move on...just another chance for Jesus to teach us all something of Spiritual value wrought out by righteousness.
. But that is Ok, we have a God still here right?!!My first thought was, "I wonder if we should check with Jesus on some of this? I'm sure we could find something written somewhere that could help." And now I am thinking, "I am sure we should check with Jesus on all of this, because His Word is to live and die by!"
Self-indulgence is a refusal to struggle, a refusal to make ourselves fit. We must be right ourselves in line with God in all things spiritually before we can help others to be right. Where are the Scriptures bouncing off the walls here in counsel?
I see the right and wrong arguments being mandated, but spiritual value has nothing to do with those arguments. One of the reasons we lose fellowship with God is that we will explain and vindicate ourselves; we will not let God hunt thru us and chase out the interests of self-will and self-assertion. Folks, I am not interested even in peace here, but rather the face of God, it is only there we see the right and wrong of it. I am interested in loving one another as Christ first loved us! Hey look Scripture! That is unconditionally and that is tantamount to impossible in our own strength.
Let me challenge us to come up with one Scripture the Lord lays on your heart to reconcile this issue - this is practical loving. And His Word would soothe my soul. Isn't that what we came here for? It is what I came for!
Ok, I know I am getting wordy here, but I also want to say, there is a difference between the human sympathy we give to a discouraged or broken-hearted person and what the Holy Spirit will do for them. We may sit down beside a broken-hearted person and pour out a flow of sympathy, and say how sorry we are for them, and tell them of other people with broken-hearts; but all that only makes them more submissive to being broken-hearted.
When Our Lord sympathizes with the heart broken by sin or sorrow, He binds it up and makes it a new heart, and the expectation of that heart ever after is from God. We must stay the course here in Christ folks. Let God be our refuge and our Master.
My verse is:
(Luke 6:31): ...New International Version (NIV)
31 Do to others as you would have them do to you.
But one needs to think about that before God speaks to us thru our spirits, for His Word is alive and Active - dividing bone and marrow - separating spirit from flesh. God wants us all to minister Himself to others here, are we looking for that? Have we submitted to that? Earnestly? And they all said - "AMEN! Lord, lead us into the valley of milk and honey once more! For it is not our will Lord, but Thine's we shall follow and lean into."
. Ok, I threw the pencil down now ... I'm done. May we learn and forgive and move on...just another chance for Jesus to teach us all something of Spiritual value wrought out by righteousness.
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