"Trust is the fruit of what happens when there is truth!" Without truth, there can be no trust!
Saturday, April 26, 2025
God Doen't Force Anyone!
People only change when they want to; when they change behavior under the pressure of others, it's because someone else intimidated them into it, it's not a heart change, it is actually dishonest.
Intimidation to change another person is all about the pride in the one attempting to change them. Those who use manipulation and intimidation to coerce another person into accepting their idea of righteousness are playing God and demonstrating a haughty attitude of superiority. There is no love in manipulation and intimidation.
Born-again believers share with love the truth to help others but we must leave the results to God so that we may not be a hindrance to what God might be doing in the life of the hearer.
When we love God, we obey Him in sharing truth, but we do not attempt any tactic of force ourselves, we leave all the results to God.
Proverbs 3:5-6 "5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart
And do not lean on your own understanding.
6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,
God never forced anyone to obey! When we see that someone is not open to the truth, we leave them alone and leave them to God.
Matt. 7:6, “Give not that which is holy unto dogs, neither cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”
Intimidation to change another person is all about the pride in the one attempting to change them. Those who use manipulation and intimidation to coerce another person into accepting their idea of righteousness are playing God and demonstrating a haughty attitude of superiority. There is no love in manipulation and intimidation.
Born-again believers share with love the truth to help others but we must leave the results to God so that we may not be a hindrance to what God might be doing in the life of the hearer.
When we love God, we obey Him in sharing truth, but we do not attempt any tactic of force ourselves, we leave all the results to God.
Proverbs 3:5-6 "5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart
And do not lean on your own understanding.
6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He will make your paths straight."
God never forced anyone to obey! When we see that someone is not open to the truth, we leave them alone and leave them to God.
Matt. 7:6, “Give not that which is holy unto dogs, neither cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.”
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