There are many of you who love the Lord who have been rejected by your families, children and grandchildren because you are "too fanatical" about your love for Jesus Christ. Your pain of loss is heavy for you.
I understand that pain but you must move on with your life. Because I have Jesus Christ I do not agonize over the loss of my children and grandchildren.
The world is in a very selfishly oriented bad place and going to get worse. Knowing this I look to Christ for my validation and joy.
Often we fantasize how wonderful it would be to see our grandchildren but in this day of bratty children its not nearly as pleasant as what we think in our minds.
They are becoming just as disrespectful as their parents have been. If their heart would be changed into a new creation by Christ then I could enjoy them but I do not enjoy the angst and prideful superiority that exudes from them. I have gotten on with my life enjoying other people who do not act this way. And, sadly there are not many anymore who understand respect or God's principles of difference to their elders.
Luke 14:26 "“If any man come to Me and hate not his father and mother, and wife and children, and brethren and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple."
The word "hate" in these passages is a comparison to how much we love Jesus Christ. We love Him so much that we are willing to give up all family members who do not follow Him. Even all family members who pretend to be Christian but have no fruit.
What is the fruit? The fruit of the Spirit are not actions although they produce actions, authentic actions based on character.
Many people attempt to appear to have the fruit through their actions but they are empty actions because the heart does not have the fruit.
Life is so beautiful when we are able to have even just one friend who understands these principles. The family never comes first, God always does. If the family loves Him this way too, great they can come along, but if not we must walk away to stay close to God.
What is the fruit:
Galatians 5:22-23
"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
I understand that pain but you must move on with your life. Because I have Jesus Christ I do not agonize over the loss of my children and grandchildren.
The world is in a very selfishly oriented bad place and going to get worse. Knowing this I look to Christ for my validation and joy.
Often we fantasize how wonderful it would be to see our grandchildren but in this day of bratty children its not nearly as pleasant as what we think in our minds.
They are becoming just as disrespectful as their parents have been. If their heart would be changed into a new creation by Christ then I could enjoy them but I do not enjoy the angst and prideful superiority that exudes from them. I have gotten on with my life enjoying other people who do not act this way. And, sadly there are not many anymore who understand respect or God's principles of difference to their elders.
Luke 14:26 "“If any man come to Me and hate not his father and mother, and wife and children, and brethren and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple."
The word "hate" in these passages is a comparison to how much we love Jesus Christ. We love Him so much that we are willing to give up all family members who do not follow Him. Even all family members who pretend to be Christian but have no fruit.
What is the fruit? The fruit of the Spirit are not actions although they produce actions, authentic actions based on character.
Many people attempt to appear to have the fruit through their actions but they are empty actions because the heart does not have the fruit.
Life is so beautiful when we are able to have even just one friend who understands these principles. The family never comes first, God always does. If the family loves Him this way too, great they can come along, but if not we must walk away to stay close to God.
What is the fruit:
Galatians 5:22-23
"22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law."
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