I constantly remind myself and tell others not to do anything based on their emotions. Know the truth and do it, no matter how you feel.
There are times when I wake up in the middle of the night feeling a slight panic attack. I have a thyroid condition that acts up occasionally, it's physical, out of my control and nothing can be done to stop it. The feeling of doom is present for only a couple of minutes, sometimes even just seconds.
During that minor but real attack I say to myself that it will pass in a couple of minutes and then I lay quietly until it is gone.
This is how it feels sometimes when we are under attack of the enemy through the unkind actions and reactions of others. If we could just remind ourselves this is a temporary situation, that it won't last and there is nothing I can do to change it, then we can remain silent while it passes.
When dealing now in a world full of hatred and rebellion we are going to have to let those with tantrums have them without our help or even our acknowledgment. The only thing that works for a tantrumming child is to spank them. But we can't spank the childish adult, so we must tell the truth, ignore their reactions and remove ourselves if they fight back.
Get used to it folks, things are ramping up for the whole world to be enveloped all the time in total nonsense and irrational behavior.
Let's not let them make us one of them by responding in kind. May the Lord keep us steady and even through it all, no matter what.
When we feel a need to respond it is often out of pride that we just must have our say, but if we remember that God can do a better job, we can leave it to Him, maintain our dignity and joy. There is no better witness than trusting Christ through everything.
Defending ourselves is often a knee jerk reaction and a futile attempt to be heard. We don't have to be heard, we can let God be heard.
Isaiah 41:10
"Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."
Joshua 1:9
"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Have you wondered why all the rioting and verbal attacks on our president, as well as encouraging someone to assassinate our leaders?
It's simple!
Narcissists hate to lose, they have the mentality of an angry bratty six year old. If they can't win they will ruin the game for you.
What we are seeing today is 2 Timothy 3 being played out in triplicates.
Back in the day, only the rare bully was acting like this, but lately I am almost numb, meaning I have become used to this mess, expecting it to increase not because I am a pessimist but because of what God says about the mentality present at the end of the end.
We are to expose those who act like this, it accomplishes two things, it prevents others from following rebellious people as well as giving us wisdom in how to deal with them. We tell the truth about them and then we remove ourselves from them. Anything else is validating their evil, making us a part of their sin.
2 Timothy 3
3 But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.
2 For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
3 unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good,
4 treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
5 holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.
6 For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,
7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men of depraved mind, rejected in regard to the faith.
9 But they will not make further progress; for their folly will be obvious to all, just as Jannes’s and Jambres’s folly was also.
10 Now you followed my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, patience, love, perseverance,
11 persecutions, and sufferings, such as happened to me at Antioch, at Iconium and at Lystra; what persecutions I endured, and out of them all the Lord rescued me!
12 Indeed, all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will be persecuted.
13 But evil men and impostors will proceed from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.
14 You, however, continue in the things you have learned and become convinced of, knowing from whom you have learned them, 15 and that from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.
16 All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness;
17 so that the man of God may be adequate, equipped for every good work."
The Pope is demonized! He brings a false gospel and a false love!
As a former Catholic I can tell you that there was no love to be found in the Catholic church among it's people. Only a pretense of love based on earning points for those who do the good deeds.
The more good deeds the better chance for earning heaven. There may be some loving Catholic people, but I haven't met them, even in all those I met, they were all working their way to heaven, therefore it really wasn't about the person they were helping, it was about their own points to earn heaven.
This is why I had no respect for "Mother Teresa", she was willing to tell "Hindus", they would be a better Hindu if they had Christ too. Toward the end of her life she was in fear of dying and didn't know where she was going. She brought a false gospel that only kept those she served in the darkness.
When someone is helping you because they get points for themselves then there is an absence of love. When we serve Christ we serve others because of the outpouring of love that flows from Christ.
There can be no love when "self" is on the throne, only heartbreak and misery.
Galatians 2:20
"I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."
1 John 4:16 "16 So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him."
1 John 4:19-20 "We love because he first loved us. If anyone says, "I love God," yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. "
1 Corinthians 13:4-13 "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. . .And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
The devil has twisted minds into believing there are injustices in lives in order to cause chaos and brokenness. His plan is to destroy as many people as possible and one of the ways of doing that is to destroy relationships.
When people have become disconnected from those who make them feel safe, they begin to compromise their own conscience in order to keep contact with their friends and relatives who have always been there, not necessarily been there for them, but are familiar to them. Familiarity feels safe even when it is abusive. Perhaps abused people believe this is the way it is everywhere, or at least would be for them.
Often abused people keep relatives in their lives simply because it feels safer than being completely alone. They have been led to believe, because of the abuse, that no one else would want them anyway, might as well stay where it is "safe." But the reality is that it is not safe, it is soul killing even if not physical murder.
When we become born again, our strength and comfort comes from God, so we are not desperately connected to those who have no interest in our well being, those who only desire to have a punching bag for their drama, someone they can control and feel superior to, are their targets.
Many years ago when the feminist movement began to be in the news daily, I couldn't figure out what these women wanted. They claimed they wanted the freedom to do whatever they wanted without restraint. After all, it was their body and they should do with it whatever they wanted.
Women began leaving the safety and comfort of their own homes in response to the treatment that they must be stupid if they cannot bring home a paycheck. For a long time in the beginning many husbands liked their wives to be home taking care of everything there while the husband's worked to bring home the money.
The sad things was that weak minded women fell into the trap that they would be seen as stupid if they didn't give into the culture and earn prestige and a pay check while their husbands began to like that extra money coming in, so they fell to the deception also.
There is no higher calling than running a household as a CEO would run a business, seeing to all the necessary planning, repairs, decorating, sewing clothes for the family, doctor appointments and pages of lists that were the accomplishments of the homemaker. There was no reason for the keeper of the home to feel any less valued than any other woman who did these same jobs for others while earning a paycheck. But the culture began to treat homemakers as lesser human beings when in the past they were elevated and valued.
It wasn't that homemaking was worthless, it was only that the culture pressured women to believe it was not worthy of notice or honor.
It was feminism that played the feelings of women who didn't have the strength to stand up to the pressure.
Notice something important!!!! Feminism has never been about equal anything, it has been about rebellion against anything that was God's design. Why you might ask?
Women in this country pretty much do anything they want any time they want it, they have had total freedom to have their jobs, kill their babies and pressure their men to do the housework so they can go and get all proud of themselves thinking they are doing something more noble, the devil lied to them.
SO!!!! Why would any American woman who calls herself a feminist suddenly put on an Islamic Burka, bow toward Mecca while embracing Islam?
You know "Islam" where women are buried up to their necks in the ground to be stoned to death, where women are raped on a regular basis, beaten by men for letting their hair show and for not covering up in long black robes.
Why would the feminists all of a sudden embrace this wild and wicked religion when it opposes everything they have claimed to be against? The answer is quite simple, for the feminist it has never been about their rights to do as they please, it has only ever been about them resisting God, demeaning and mocking others while mutilating their children and their own bodies to defy God.
THAT'S IT!!!!
All the claims of feminism have not been anything other than defying God. Get it!!! And sadly most women in our country have fallen into the trap of feminism, only to be thrown under the bus and become more abused and demeaned than ever before as these same feminist leaders carry them down the path of the most heinous degradation, debasement, injustice, violation and mistreatment than any woman has had to endure in the history of this country.
Believing women who chose not to leave their domain in the home, had more freedom, love and safety when they obeyed God, than any feminist claims she has had.
Feminists have always been in bondage to the opinions of others while striving for something that does not last and has no value, that being temporary prestige and the almighty dollar.
Go figure!!!!
Proverbs 31 is worth reading over again, it shows us the status of the women in the home, God's way works best!!!!
Every day we are alive is a day to serve and proclaim Christ.
Every infirmity we have is an opportunity to demonstrate our trust in Him.
Ecc. 1:18 Because in much wisdom there is much grief, and increasing knowledge results in increasing pain."
I would rather hurt having the wisdom than not hurt not knowing. The joy that comes with understanding is much greater than the hurt. Wisdom bring relief from those things that attempt to deceive. It also allows us the freedom to walk away from foolishness while so many others are walking into it. The culture no longer controls our thinking or choices, we do through the Holy Spirit.
Proverbs 4:6-8 "…6 "Do not forsake her, and she will guard you; Love her, and she will watch over you. 7 "The beginning of wisdom is: Acquire wisdom; And with all your acquiring, get understanding. 8 "Prize her, and she will exalt you; She will honor you if you embrace her.…"
