Thursday, September 5, 2019
The Poison!
‘Father, I can't take it anymore, my wife is driving me insane!!! I want to kill her, but I'm afraid someone might find out I did it. Please help me?!
The Father replied:
‘Yes I can help you, but there's a but... you're going to have to make amends with her so no one would suspect that it was you, when she dies… You'll have to take very good care of her, be kind, grateful, patient, caring, less selfish, listen more and help her with chores... you see this powder here? Every day you have to put a little in her food. So, she dies slowly.
Thirty days had passed and the son came back and said to his father:
‘I don't want her to die! I have come to love her. And now… how do I cut the effect of the poison?’
Then the father said:
‘Don't worry! What I gave you was rice powder. She's not going to die, because the poison was in you!’
‘When we feed grudges, our love slowly dies. When we make peace with ourselves and with those who offended us, then we can deal with the other, as we would like to be treated.’
Then, we will have the initiative to love, to give, to offer, to serve, to care for... and not just have the need to win, to be served, or to take advantage of and exploit the other.
We all need to stop, pray and ask for that antidote called forgiveness.
Young People Who Need to Repent
For those of you who have lost the respect and love of your children because you attempted to bring God's truth to them, know this..........you are not the only ones.
Many adult ungodly children have learned how to be disrespectful from the culture and from the school systems they were trained by.
Sadly too much of the self esteem teaching that created all this meanness seeped into the church and is now mainstream in nearly all churches these days.
Have you been cut off from the social media of your children? Count it a blessing instead of pinning away for them. What is going on in social media these days by many adult children who say they are Christians may very well grieve you.
Never in all my years of life have I seen so much disrespect and resistance to instruction and training as I have seen in our children's generation. I am 67 years old and almost no one treated their parents the way I see parents being treated now. Only those who were considered thugs and criminals were this way and they were rejected by the rest of the culture.
Now that we are living in a day when everything evil is being tolerated and honesty straight up is being disdained, even those who attend church every week are acting more like unsaved people than they do like a changed born again child of God.
The angst of the younger generation is becoming so overwhelming it leaves us with a sense of grief that they are missing the joy of the Lord and the sense of graciousness that should be present in every born again believer.
Even those who worked hard to train their children at home so they would be protected from the world are experiencing this disrespect and vitriol.
Parents are being treated as though they are stupid and worth nothing except to provide something these young people want. They will only love and help their parents when they are getting something out of it. I find this to be common and often without challenge from the parents.
There is a disdain for any advice or instruction on the part of the young people, that used to be valued according to the principles of the Bible.
Keep in mind that it is not you that they hate really, its that they just love themselves so much they have no room for loving you or God. Even those that say they love God only use Him the way they use their parents. The love of Christ does not show up in their lives, and happiness is only seen when they are getting their own way.
These young people are falsely judging their parents to justify their own anger and hatred.
Having said all that, there is hope, that is the more we seek Christ for truth the more we understand what is happening. Do not fear the young people reading this will become angry. The anger will prove the tenor of this post.
A humble and loving young person who has been acting this way will be sorrowful that they were exposed and they will repent. Those who maintain their anger and even become worse are showing us they are stubborn and refuse to repent and become born again.
Never fear telling the truth, the loving ones will repent and the angry stubborn ones will become even angrier.
It really is true that challenge and difficulty do not make the person, it only reveals them.
And yes!!! This is a strong rebuke to young people to repent from their sinful attitudes and begin seeking God to be cleansed.
1 John 1:9
"9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
Many adult ungodly children have learned how to be disrespectful from the culture and from the school systems they were trained by.
Sadly too much of the self esteem teaching that created all this meanness seeped into the church and is now mainstream in nearly all churches these days.
Have you been cut off from the social media of your children? Count it a blessing instead of pinning away for them. What is going on in social media these days by many adult children who say they are Christians may very well grieve you.
Never in all my years of life have I seen so much disrespect and resistance to instruction and training as I have seen in our children's generation. I am 67 years old and almost no one treated their parents the way I see parents being treated now. Only those who were considered thugs and criminals were this way and they were rejected by the rest of the culture.
Now that we are living in a day when everything evil is being tolerated and honesty straight up is being disdained, even those who attend church every week are acting more like unsaved people than they do like a changed born again child of God.
The angst of the younger generation is becoming so overwhelming it leaves us with a sense of grief that they are missing the joy of the Lord and the sense of graciousness that should be present in every born again believer.
Even those who worked hard to train their children at home so they would be protected from the world are experiencing this disrespect and vitriol.
Parents are being treated as though they are stupid and worth nothing except to provide something these young people want. They will only love and help their parents when they are getting something out of it. I find this to be common and often without challenge from the parents.
There is a disdain for any advice or instruction on the part of the young people, that used to be valued according to the principles of the Bible.
Keep in mind that it is not you that they hate really, its that they just love themselves so much they have no room for loving you or God. Even those that say they love God only use Him the way they use their parents. The love of Christ does not show up in their lives, and happiness is only seen when they are getting their own way.
These young people are falsely judging their parents to justify their own anger and hatred.
Having said all that, there is hope, that is the more we seek Christ for truth the more we understand what is happening. Do not fear the young people reading this will become angry. The anger will prove the tenor of this post.
A humble and loving young person who has been acting this way will be sorrowful that they were exposed and they will repent. Those who maintain their anger and even become worse are showing us they are stubborn and refuse to repent and become born again.
Never fear telling the truth, the loving ones will repent and the angry stubborn ones will become even angrier.
It really is true that challenge and difficulty do not make the person, it only reveals them.
And yes!!! This is a strong rebuke to young people to repent from their sinful attitudes and begin seeking God to be cleansed.
1 John 1:9
"9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."
When God Does a Matter Man Cannot Undo It!
Even if a spouse is not saved or repentant they still remain a spouse. Our character and the condition of our attitude does not make a marriage.
When God "glued" two people into one in marriage it had nothing to do with our character or our actions.
Marriage is a picture of our relationship with God when we are born again. It cannot be severed no matter how badly the believer acts. OF course how we act badly may be evidence that we were never born again, but not proof.
God puts up with our nonsense as born again believers while disciplining us to begin obeying again.
Hebrews 12:5-7…5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
6 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises everyone He receives as a son.”
7 Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?…"
God never undoes our salvation nor can man undo it. God never undoes our "made into oneness" in marriage, nor can man undo it.
God said: "no man can put asunder what God has joined." "Let no man" is not a command not to, its a statement that it cannot be done. Our English renderings are often done in the old English which is misunderstood in our day.
So those who think marriage can be dissolved are not understanding God's Word. However they have no excuse because they can ask God and He will open their eyes.
Those who think our salvation can be undone are not understanding the sealing of the Holy Spirit as the guarantee of our inheritance. When God makes a change in us it is His work that man cannot undo, as is also with marriage.
When God "glued" two people into one in marriage it had nothing to do with our character or our actions.
Marriage is a picture of our relationship with God when we are born again. It cannot be severed no matter how badly the believer acts. OF course how we act badly may be evidence that we were never born again, but not proof.
God puts up with our nonsense as born again believers while disciplining us to begin obeying again.
Hebrews 12:5-7…5 And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: “My son, do not take lightly the discipline of the Lord, and do not lose heart when He rebukes you.
6 For the Lord disciplines the one He loves, and He chastises everyone He receives as a son.”
7 Endure suffering as discipline; God is treating you as sons. For what son is not disciplined by his father?…"
God never undoes our salvation nor can man undo it. God never undoes our "made into oneness" in marriage, nor can man undo it.
God said: "no man can put asunder what God has joined." "Let no man" is not a command not to, its a statement that it cannot be done. Our English renderings are often done in the old English which is misunderstood in our day.
So those who think marriage can be dissolved are not understanding God's Word. However they have no excuse because they can ask God and He will open their eyes.
Those who think our salvation can be undone are not understanding the sealing of the Holy Spirit as the guarantee of our inheritance. When God makes a change in us it is His work that man cannot undo, as is also with marriage.
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