Make Wisdom the Priority in Life and All Else will Fall Into Place

Many years ago when I began to ask God for wisdom even if it meant giving up what the rest of the culture believed and even losing their love and support I found myself swimming upstream against modern Christianity.

All family members avoid me and treat me with disdain and even contempt through disrespect. They use excuses that I am a woman and should not speak or write the principles of God. Those who love the Lord don't care who they hear it from they rejoice that it was spoken by anyone.

The appstates elevate and revere those who have degrees or never rattle their cages with the truth, but will not tolerate anything that sounds like a correction or rebuke.

2 Timothy 4:2-4 "…2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and encourage with every form of patient instruction. 3 For the time will come when men will not tolerate sound doctrine, but with itching ears they will gather around themselves teachers to suit their own desires. 4 So they will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.…"

Being without angry family members is preferable to being accepted by the Christian culture which only wants to enjoy their pleasures and fantasies. God has brought me so many wonderful godly friends through the internet, far more than the pretenders I lost.

The family of God is my family, they have the Spirit of Christ in them far more powerful than physical blood running through the veins of biological family. We are related to the people of God through the blood of Jesus Christ!!!!

Proverbs 18:24 "A person of too many friends comes to ruin, But there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother."

Those who are contemptuous toward us for being too "radical" in our Christianity, bringing to bear the scriptures on every subject of conversation are treated as though they are mentally disordered.

God said it would be this way and to count it all joy when we are rejected by those who do not love Him. And, even those who say they are Christians but act as though they don't care what He thinks. We cannot love someone and be indifferent to His thoughts and desires for us.

Matthew 5:11-12

“Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

May this knowledge of Gods instruction to us encourage us so much that being rejected feels more like a tiny mosquito bite that itches a little, than it does the bite of a dog that deeply wounds and festers. Yes, it affects us but not enough to pay much attention to it.