01/22/2018
(Responding in Kind) if you have watched any T.V. news you have seen more anger, more resentment, more division, envy, strife. Communication has lost any sense of civillity. Honest debate? Fake News? Finger pointing? Fist pounding, face slapping, aggressive behavior, even rioting destroying property, private and public. Scandalous accusations, evidence revealed and evidence hidden. Charges brought and charges dropped. It really is easy to get caught in the raging river of human emotions concerning perceived RIGHT & WRONG. I too have slipped into swift current of events, even righteously by Bible believer "standards". Yet, as born again, child of The Most High God I have found myself as one of those who brought the woman caught in sin to Jesus. Quoting the Law of Moses " this woman is to be stoned to DEATH, what do You, JESUS, say? Jesus knelt and wrote something in the dust. As the accusers read what Jesus wrote, they dropped the stones from their hands and one by one they turned and walked away. I can only imagine what they saw written in the dust. Jesus agreed with them, and added " let he who is without SIN cast the 1st stone. After seeing THEY had sin, they left without one stone thrown. JESUS ask, where are your accusers? Her answer, "there are none" Jesus answer "neither do I accuse you, go your way, AND SIN NO MORE" if we will respond in KINDNESS and show forth The Love of God, praying spiritual eyes be opened, hard hearts be soften. That truth be revealed, those in deception and bo***ge be set free. We will change the very atmosphere of our nation. We will win our fight, but it will only be, by The Spirit, and not by flesh. Be kind one to another.
Don't take it personally. Identify with Jesus as He was rejected, beaten, mocked, spit upon, carrying His cross, then nailed to it, and as his last act of KINDNESS , " Father, forgive them, they do not know what they're doing. Likewise Steven, as a deacon of the Church, ministered both in word and deed. He was stoned to death, while Saul, who BECAME Paul (who wrote most of the New Testament) held the clothes of those stoning Steven. Steven's last act of KINDNESS " Father forgive them, lay not this charge upon them" (and I have trouble when someone cuts me off in traffic?) I am a work in progress, HE who began a good work, In me, will be faithful to complete it. Now, understand Jesus didn't agree WITH THE PEOPLE....HE AGREED with GOD. We should, too! Faith, Hope, Love! Check your supplies. Your going to need it more and more to respond in KIND!
Yours in Christ!
Randy & Glenda