Did you know that the origination of Yoga was not for better health, but rather for old people who are getting ready to die to deal with their death experience?
We live in a deceptive world full of lies, actually causing people to practice something religious that was meant for dying people.
Yoga in the beginning had nothing to do with fostering health, that's the lie so many people have told so long that the origins have been almost completely forgotten.
Why anyone would think that sitting in lotus position while emptying the mind would do anything except make someone stupid is beyond me.
God never tells us to empty our mind, just the opposite. God teaches us to think with the mind of Christ. The devil always promotes the opposite of what God has commanded.
Think about it!!!
Thursday, April 25, 2019
We Might Have to be a Doormat at Times
Psychology has taught us that we should never allow anyone to abuse us. This is coming from a stance of arrogance.
Can the Jews in Nazi Germany say, "God wouldn't want me to be abused?" God allowed the Jews and many other people in the world to be abused for His purposes. The nation of Israel was re-established because of the holocaust. The world felt sorry for the Jews and because of this empathy, they were given their own nation.
God allowed it and then punished the evil people and nations that did the abusing. We don't always understand God's purposes but if we trust Him, then we know they are the best.
I was angry at the Germans when I was a child. My family were partly of the Germanic race. I was angry because of the documentaries I saw that showed the atrocities the Germans and others perpetrated on the Jewish people. I hated the abuse then and still do. However I see the big picture, some of the born again believers escaped, others went home to the Lord and still others died in their unbelief without the protection of God. The tribulation will be this way too for the nation of Israel.
After all the abuse of the world and the anit-christ the Jews will once again be persecuted. Those Jews who will not trust Christ will meet their maker without Christ. Two thirds of the nation will be destroyed with only one third remaining. Because of the miracles of God to protect the nation itself, these one third will become born again, they are the ones who will be protected.
As believers we are not always protected. Sometimes we have to endure terrible things because we love Christ. When I speak of getting away from abuse it is always in the context of "if it is God's will." If God gives us an escape from abuse then we are free to take it.
2 Timothy 3:12
"Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,"
When a person is married to an emotionally abusive spouse there is no out for that person. One must learn the ways to live out their Christianity in spite of the verbal abuse. However, in physical abuse, real abuse, not just a slap of the face or a pull of the arm, then one must call the authorities, it is against the law. So much of mean spirited behavior today is wrong but I would not call it abuse.
When someone lives every day with a non-believer the highest goal is to live out their Christianity in the power of the Holy Spirit. Believe me when I say it takes a whole lot more faith to live out our faith with a non-believer. The "feelings" of wanting to return evil for evil or to exact revenge in some way is a constant battle of the mind while resisting the whispers and temptations of the devil to become like the abuser.
God has called us to be strong, walk faithfully with Him even in frustrating situations. The abuse that includes beatings and other forms that are life threatening are against the law, the woman experiencing this must take it to the authorities.
However, too many women are claiming abuse when there is uncomfortableness or control over them when there shouldn't be. Yes, this is wrong, but divorcing and calling authorities is revenge in these cases.
God may want us to be a doormat for a time to learn humility and to show the love of Christ. No where in the word does God say "you should not be a doormat. Even Christ was the ultimate door mat in dying for the sins of others when he never sinned himself.
We remove ourselves from those who abuse when God tells us to remove ourselves. He also gives us options and permission at times, but other times we are called to "suck it up", because the greater good is more important. Often we do not know what that greater good is until the end of our life.
I am more likely to avoid people who claim to be Christians when they are verbally or emotionally abusive. They are violating God's principles with the mentality of superiority and demeaning traits and actions. I will avoid those who claim to be of God but have no remorse over their disrespectful ways.
And, I am more likely to put up with abuse from non-believers who don't know any better. They are ruled by the devil, they are putty in his hands without defense against the emotions and lies he places in them every day.
Ephesians 6:12
"12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places."
“Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him....Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness....And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on his. When he tells us to love our enemies, he gives along with the command, the love itself.”
Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie could not remove herself it was not an option given to her. She began an angry person only to become stronger in her faith, cleansed of self will replaced by trusting Christ more.
As for our pride, sometimes our frustration comes out of pride more than justice. Here is another quote from Corrie that hits home. Often our anger at abusive behavior has more to do with our own pride of wanting to be loved than it does out of God's purposes.
"“Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.” Corrie Ten Boom
More quotes from Corrie:
“What wings are to a bird and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.”
“With Jesus, even in our darkest moments the best remains and the very best is yet to be…”
Our highest goal is to live for Christ no matter in which prison cell the devil places us. The devil cannot do anything without God's permission, His purposes take priority over our "feelings" and "desires."
Corrie Ten Boom experienced more abuse than any of us can imaging. She never said things like; "God wouldn't want us to be a door mat. " Because her focus was Christ, at least eventually, she was able to get past the thoughts of the abuse to the purposes in it, for her growth and the growth of others who will know her story.
Now that we have established that abuse is wrong and in some cases we must remove ourselves, we must remember that others times we remain in order to learn humility, steadiness in trials and graciousness through any circumstance.
When we bail out every time, we may be missing important lessons. If you are removing yourself be sure it is God's plan and not just your desire to be comfortable.
Romans 5:3-5 "…3 Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us."
Remember if you cannot leave an emotionally and spiritually abusive situation, you can pray and fast your way through. I promise if you do this you will come out the other side stronger than before and more Christlike.
Hallelujah!!!!!
Can the Jews in Nazi Germany say, "God wouldn't want me to be abused?" God allowed the Jews and many other people in the world to be abused for His purposes. The nation of Israel was re-established because of the holocaust. The world felt sorry for the Jews and because of this empathy, they were given their own nation.
God allowed it and then punished the evil people and nations that did the abusing. We don't always understand God's purposes but if we trust Him, then we know they are the best.
I was angry at the Germans when I was a child. My family were partly of the Germanic race. I was angry because of the documentaries I saw that showed the atrocities the Germans and others perpetrated on the Jewish people. I hated the abuse then and still do. However I see the big picture, some of the born again believers escaped, others went home to the Lord and still others died in their unbelief without the protection of God. The tribulation will be this way too for the nation of Israel.
After all the abuse of the world and the anit-christ the Jews will once again be persecuted. Those Jews who will not trust Christ will meet their maker without Christ. Two thirds of the nation will be destroyed with only one third remaining. Because of the miracles of God to protect the nation itself, these one third will become born again, they are the ones who will be protected.
As believers we are not always protected. Sometimes we have to endure terrible things because we love Christ. When I speak of getting away from abuse it is always in the context of "if it is God's will." If God gives us an escape from abuse then we are free to take it.
2 Timothy 3:12
"Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,"
When a person is married to an emotionally abusive spouse there is no out for that person. One must learn the ways to live out their Christianity in spite of the verbal abuse. However, in physical abuse, real abuse, not just a slap of the face or a pull of the arm, then one must call the authorities, it is against the law. So much of mean spirited behavior today is wrong but I would not call it abuse.
When someone lives every day with a non-believer the highest goal is to live out their Christianity in the power of the Holy Spirit. Believe me when I say it takes a whole lot more faith to live out our faith with a non-believer. The "feelings" of wanting to return evil for evil or to exact revenge in some way is a constant battle of the mind while resisting the whispers and temptations of the devil to become like the abuser.
God has called us to be strong, walk faithfully with Him even in frustrating situations. The abuse that includes beatings and other forms that are life threatening are against the law, the woman experiencing this must take it to the authorities.
However, too many women are claiming abuse when there is uncomfortableness or control over them when there shouldn't be. Yes, this is wrong, but divorcing and calling authorities is revenge in these cases.
God may want us to be a doormat for a time to learn humility and to show the love of Christ. No where in the word does God say "you should not be a doormat. Even Christ was the ultimate door mat in dying for the sins of others when he never sinned himself.
We remove ourselves from those who abuse when God tells us to remove ourselves. He also gives us options and permission at times, but other times we are called to "suck it up", because the greater good is more important. Often we do not know what that greater good is until the end of our life.
I am more likely to avoid people who claim to be Christians when they are verbally or emotionally abusive. They are violating God's principles with the mentality of superiority and demeaning traits and actions. I will avoid those who claim to be of God but have no remorse over their disrespectful ways.
And, I am more likely to put up with abuse from non-believers who don't know any better. They are ruled by the devil, they are putty in his hands without defense against the emotions and lies he places in them every day.
Ephesians 6:12
"12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places."
“Even as the angry vengeful thoughts boiled through me, I saw the sin of them. Jesus Christ had died for this man; was I going to ask for more? Lord Jesus, I prayed, forgive me and help me to forgive him....Jesus, I cannot forgive him. Give me your forgiveness....And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on his. When he tells us to love our enemies, he gives along with the command, the love itself.”
Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie could not remove herself it was not an option given to her. She began an angry person only to become stronger in her faith, cleansed of self will replaced by trusting Christ more.
As for our pride, sometimes our frustration comes out of pride more than justice. Here is another quote from Corrie that hits home. Often our anger at abusive behavior has more to do with our own pride of wanting to be loved than it does out of God's purposes.
"“Hold everything in your hands lightly, otherwise it hurts when God pries your fingers open.” Corrie Ten Boom
More quotes from Corrie:
“What wings are to a bird and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.”
“With Jesus, even in our darkest moments the best remains and the very best is yet to be…”
Our highest goal is to live for Christ no matter in which prison cell the devil places us. The devil cannot do anything without God's permission, His purposes take priority over our "feelings" and "desires."
Corrie Ten Boom experienced more abuse than any of us can imaging. She never said things like; "God wouldn't want us to be a door mat. " Because her focus was Christ, at least eventually, she was able to get past the thoughts of the abuse to the purposes in it, for her growth and the growth of others who will know her story.
Now that we have established that abuse is wrong and in some cases we must remove ourselves, we must remember that others times we remain in order to learn humility, steadiness in trials and graciousness through any circumstance.
When we bail out every time, we may be missing important lessons. If you are removing yourself be sure it is God's plan and not just your desire to be comfortable.
Romans 5:3-5 "…3 Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us."
Remember if you cannot leave an emotionally and spiritually abusive situation, you can pray and fast your way through. I promise if you do this you will come out the other side stronger than before and more Christlike.
Hallelujah!!!!!
Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Trust the Holy Spirit Alone
I rarely use the KJV of the Bible. It is poetic but not inspired as the Original language. I never meet anyone who knows what "concupiscence" means. It means "sexual desire", so why use that word that no one else knows when we can say "sexual desire" that everyone knows.
Then there is "lascivious" which means driven by sexual desire. Why not just say "driven by sexual desire.
Then there is "aforehand" when we could say "beforehand."
"anon" tell me what it means without looking it up please.
"assayed" What does it mean without looking it up.
"broided" what does it mean without looking it up.
"carriages," No it doesn't mean something you ride in, it means "luggage", a very different meaning from what we understand today.
"in a charger.” in the old English does not mean a warming plate we put under another plate and it doesn't mean a device for charging our phones. Look it up and you will have to if you want to understand the KJV of the Bible.
"Conversation" in the KJV of the bible does not mean to speak words, it means how we live our lives. If we misunderstand this one will be telling people they should be careful how they speak. But God never said that, He said to be sure we are living right.
"Execute" in the KJV does not mean to put to death as we use it today, it means to "carry out."
You see our culture does not understand the Old English as much as those who spoke old English two centuries ago would not be able to understand our meanings today.
God sent Godly men to translate the Bible into other languages so that the whole world would have it it their own language. The problem is always that no translation, including the KJV is inspired by God, they are only translations of the original inspired works.
Even the KJV has been updated more than 18 times to keep up with language changes. These are no cultural changes, but language changes. If we do not know a word from two hundred years ago properly we very likely would end up believing the opposite of what God actually said or in serious error in other ways.
There are godly people today just like in KJ time, who are able to interpret, perhaps even better because we have now the original language actually spoken in Israel today.
Someone might say that we can get meanings from the context. This is not necessarily true. Here is an example:
1 Peter 3:1 "Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;"
I have had people tell me that God is very concerned with the "conversation" meaning speech, because of this verse. But that's not what the verse is conveying at all. God said, "without a word" she may win her husband. that means she is not speaking. The word conversation here means her lifestyle. A woman is able to influence her husband by the way she lives and operates, even if she never speaks words. This meaning also does not mean that she may not talk at all to him about God, it just means that her life will match up with whatever she says which is borne out in the rest of the Bible.
Another misunderstanding we see commonly is in the matter of divorce and remarriage.
"Let no one put assunder", is not an instruction for people not to put something assunder, its a statement that "no one can" put assunder. The word "let" means that it is not possible for someone. That one should not try, "let" no one try to put assunder.
One cannot separate one in marriage no matter what they do. God made them one, only He can separate them but He will not, they remain one until one of them dies. This is why Christ said that remarriage is an ongoing state of adultery.
Because of the misuse and misunderstandings of the translations, man has come up with many erroneous concoctions of meanings more based on their desired belief rather than on what God actually said.
In our language when we say someone is "peculiar" we mean they are odd or strange. But the in the old English "peculiar" means "Owned, one’s very own, special, treasure; different from all of the rest."
1 Corinthians 6:19–20
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s."
In these days when Christians are fighting one another about translations, many will place their trust in the works of men in the translation while ignoring the work of the Holy Spirit in them to guide their thinking. I believe lack of faith drives people to place their trust in a translation rather than in the Holy Spirit Who lives in them.
We use many idioms today that never existed two hundred years ago and there will be many more to come as language changes about 2% a year. Did you know that in old English a winged creature was called a "brid." NO its not spelled wrong, that's the way they spelled and said the word that describes a winged creature that flies.
The spelling not only changed in the many words so have meanings. It is vitally important that we are able to convey to the culture the truth. If they cannot understand what we are saying then they will not listen.
I am not suggesting that we dumb down truth, only that we speak in the language of the culture we live in. I would never give a KJV of the Bible to a new believer or someone who is unsaved. I would hand them one written in their language. I would not hand a KJV of the bible to a Chinese person, they wouldn't be able to read it .
I understand the KJV, or most of it, because I have trained myself to do it. But many people are not going to train themselves in it, they must be able to sit down and read it without looking up words all the time.
We want to reach people with truth. God's truth is in Greek and Hebrew, since we cannot read that He has provided translations. Why is a provision of translations from Greek and Hebrew any different from updated English verbiage? Its not!
Of course the Holy Spirit must be constantly helping us to understand because the prejudices of translators get in the way. But we don't have to worry about that, we can trust the Holy Spirit to teach us when translators don't get it perfectly. And, the translators of the KJV did not get it more perfectly than some newer translations. It may be better than some and not as good as others.
Here's the kicker.......its the Holy Spirit that imparts wisdom, its the Holy Spirit Who enlightens us. Placing our trust in any translation will lead us into error.
I see no verse in the any translation that says "trust only the KJV of the Bible." NOT ONE!
I do see lost of scripture encouraging us to trust the Holy Spirit and Him alone.
Acts 1:8
"8 but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”
Luke 24:45-49
45 Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,
46 and He said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day,
47 and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
48 You are witnesses of these things.
49 And behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”
John 16:13-14 "13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. 14 He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.…"
There are translations that are not good and there are others that are, God can show you which ones. And, if none of them are perfect and they are not, then He can give you the understanding even if the words are not perfectly translated.
Bottom line!!!! Place your trust in Christ alone and not in any particular translation. Do not.....PLEASE do not argue with someone who will distract with a mindset of trusting a translation. Those who trust a translation are not trusting in the Holy Spirit.
Read which ever version you prefer, if its one that is not so good, the Holy Spirit will redirect you.
Then there is "lascivious" which means driven by sexual desire. Why not just say "driven by sexual desire.
Then there is "aforehand" when we could say "beforehand."
"anon" tell me what it means without looking it up please.
"assayed" What does it mean without looking it up.
"broided" what does it mean without looking it up.
"carriages," No it doesn't mean something you ride in, it means "luggage", a very different meaning from what we understand today.
"in a charger.” in the old English does not mean a warming plate we put under another plate and it doesn't mean a device for charging our phones. Look it up and you will have to if you want to understand the KJV of the Bible.
"Conversation" in the KJV of the bible does not mean to speak words, it means how we live our lives. If we misunderstand this one will be telling people they should be careful how they speak. But God never said that, He said to be sure we are living right.
"Execute" in the KJV does not mean to put to death as we use it today, it means to "carry out."
You see our culture does not understand the Old English as much as those who spoke old English two centuries ago would not be able to understand our meanings today.
God sent Godly men to translate the Bible into other languages so that the whole world would have it it their own language. The problem is always that no translation, including the KJV is inspired by God, they are only translations of the original inspired works.
Even the KJV has been updated more than 18 times to keep up with language changes. These are no cultural changes, but language changes. If we do not know a word from two hundred years ago properly we very likely would end up believing the opposite of what God actually said or in serious error in other ways.
There are godly people today just like in KJ time, who are able to interpret, perhaps even better because we have now the original language actually spoken in Israel today.
Someone might say that we can get meanings from the context. This is not necessarily true. Here is an example:
1 Peter 3:1 "Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;"
I have had people tell me that God is very concerned with the "conversation" meaning speech, because of this verse. But that's not what the verse is conveying at all. God said, "without a word" she may win her husband. that means she is not speaking. The word conversation here means her lifestyle. A woman is able to influence her husband by the way she lives and operates, even if she never speaks words. This meaning also does not mean that she may not talk at all to him about God, it just means that her life will match up with whatever she says which is borne out in the rest of the Bible.
Another misunderstanding we see commonly is in the matter of divorce and remarriage.
"Let no one put assunder", is not an instruction for people not to put something assunder, its a statement that "no one can" put assunder. The word "let" means that it is not possible for someone. That one should not try, "let" no one try to put assunder.
One cannot separate one in marriage no matter what they do. God made them one, only He can separate them but He will not, they remain one until one of them dies. This is why Christ said that remarriage is an ongoing state of adultery.
Because of the misuse and misunderstandings of the translations, man has come up with many erroneous concoctions of meanings more based on their desired belief rather than on what God actually said.
In our language when we say someone is "peculiar" we mean they are odd or strange. But the in the old English "peculiar" means "Owned, one’s very own, special, treasure; different from all of the rest."
1 Corinthians 6:19–20
19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
20 For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s."
In these days when Christians are fighting one another about translations, many will place their trust in the works of men in the translation while ignoring the work of the Holy Spirit in them to guide their thinking. I believe lack of faith drives people to place their trust in a translation rather than in the Holy Spirit Who lives in them.
We use many idioms today that never existed two hundred years ago and there will be many more to come as language changes about 2% a year. Did you know that in old English a winged creature was called a "brid." NO its not spelled wrong, that's the way they spelled and said the word that describes a winged creature that flies.
The spelling not only changed in the many words so have meanings. It is vitally important that we are able to convey to the culture the truth. If they cannot understand what we are saying then they will not listen.
I am not suggesting that we dumb down truth, only that we speak in the language of the culture we live in. I would never give a KJV of the Bible to a new believer or someone who is unsaved. I would hand them one written in their language. I would not hand a KJV of the bible to a Chinese person, they wouldn't be able to read it .
I understand the KJV, or most of it, because I have trained myself to do it. But many people are not going to train themselves in it, they must be able to sit down and read it without looking up words all the time.
We want to reach people with truth. God's truth is in Greek and Hebrew, since we cannot read that He has provided translations. Why is a provision of translations from Greek and Hebrew any different from updated English verbiage? Its not!
Of course the Holy Spirit must be constantly helping us to understand because the prejudices of translators get in the way. But we don't have to worry about that, we can trust the Holy Spirit to teach us when translators don't get it perfectly. And, the translators of the KJV did not get it more perfectly than some newer translations. It may be better than some and not as good as others.
Here's the kicker.......its the Holy Spirit that imparts wisdom, its the Holy Spirit Who enlightens us. Placing our trust in any translation will lead us into error.
I see no verse in the any translation that says "trust only the KJV of the Bible." NOT ONE!
I do see lost of scripture encouraging us to trust the Holy Spirit and Him alone.
Acts 1:8
"8 but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be My witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and even to the remotest part of the earth.”
Luke 24:45-49
45 Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,
46 and He said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day,
47 and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
48 You are witnesses of these things.
49 And behold, I am sending forth the promise of My Father upon you; but you are to stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”
John 16:13-14 "13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. 14 He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.…"
There are translations that are not good and there are others that are, God can show you which ones. And, if none of them are perfect and they are not, then He can give you the understanding even if the words are not perfectly translated.
Bottom line!!!! Place your trust in Christ alone and not in any particular translation. Do not.....PLEASE do not argue with someone who will distract with a mindset of trusting a translation. Those who trust a translation are not trusting in the Holy Spirit.
Read which ever version you prefer, if its one that is not so good, the Holy Spirit will redirect you.
Tuesday, April 23, 2019
Monday, April 22, 2019
When the Victim is not a Victim at all!
One of the tactics of a narcissist is their ability to play the victim when we have decided not to engage in argument with them. They hate it beyond measure that they were not able to dominate a conversation or communication.
When we have boundaries and standards we have a responsibility to maintain those things for personal integrity.
When a narcissist comes along expecting to overturn standards and cross our boundaries, then is the time to walk away. There are those who feel victimized when they cannot control you. They blame you for the relationship break up because you would not allow them to hammer you with their version of events or doctrine.
When we do not allow others to have their say and believe their chosen doctrine then we have crossed the line. It is one thing to discuss a matter with a fellow believer in a calm and respectful manner and quite another to hammer someone who will not be convinced by our assertions.
We all have disagreements at times, but those who cannot stand to allow us to have our beliefs without battering and punishing us, are not respectful and are not friends we want to retain.
Thankfully we are not responsible to keep everyone as a friend. We are to evaluate the value of a friendship to see if it leads us closer to God or further away from His principles.
When we see someone playing manipulative games, using intimidation, blaming and mocking then is when it is time to exit the relationship.
We always hate it when we have to assert ourselves in relationships like this, we prefer that we did not have to do it. However reason and truth dictates that we walk on down the road when we encounter those who have nothing in mind except winning. When truth is not very important, when we are not important enough to show respect to us, then too is the time to walk down the road.
The Holy Spirit can show us who and when. We have no need to analyze anything, when the Spirit speaks then we obey. No one else can assess our relationship with others, they can only give their input based on limited understanding, ultimately it is the Holy Spirit Who must give us the answer.
Hallelujah, when we trust Christ, He does really have all the answers to everything.
John 16:13-14 "13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. 14 He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.…"
When we have boundaries and standards we have a responsibility to maintain those things for personal integrity.
When a narcissist comes along expecting to overturn standards and cross our boundaries, then is the time to walk away. There are those who feel victimized when they cannot control you. They blame you for the relationship break up because you would not allow them to hammer you with their version of events or doctrine.
When we do not allow others to have their say and believe their chosen doctrine then we have crossed the line. It is one thing to discuss a matter with a fellow believer in a calm and respectful manner and quite another to hammer someone who will not be convinced by our assertions.
We all have disagreements at times, but those who cannot stand to allow us to have our beliefs without battering and punishing us, are not respectful and are not friends we want to retain.
Thankfully we are not responsible to keep everyone as a friend. We are to evaluate the value of a friendship to see if it leads us closer to God or further away from His principles.
When we see someone playing manipulative games, using intimidation, blaming and mocking then is when it is time to exit the relationship.
We always hate it when we have to assert ourselves in relationships like this, we prefer that we did not have to do it. However reason and truth dictates that we walk on down the road when we encounter those who have nothing in mind except winning. When truth is not very important, when we are not important enough to show respect to us, then too is the time to walk down the road.
The Holy Spirit can show us who and when. We have no need to analyze anything, when the Spirit speaks then we obey. No one else can assess our relationship with others, they can only give their input based on limited understanding, ultimately it is the Holy Spirit Who must give us the answer.
Hallelujah, when we trust Christ, He does really have all the answers to everything.
John 16:13-14 "13 However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come. 14 He will glorify Me by taking from what is Mine and disclosing it to you.…"
Soylant Green is Nearly Here!
My husband and I were just listening to a news cast coming out of the state of Washington. The news was that there is a study now looking into the benefits of composting human bodies, an alternative to burial.
This is very evil, I wonder how many people will be using this compost made from human bodies to grow the vegetables they will eat.
If the governor signs the bill to allow this it will go into effect May 1st.
Things just keep getting worse all the time. I cannot think of anything more disrespectful than to use human bodies as fertilizer for plants.
Does anyone wonder anymore why I have the perspective about our region that I have?
The 10,000 person naked bike ride just 40 miles down the highway from us in Portland Oregon and now this monstrous bill to compost the bodies of human beings in our state of Washington. One has to wonder what the next abomination will be upheld as good.
Does anyone remember the movie with Charlton Heston called "Soylant Green." We are almost there folks, a time when human bodies will be used for food, cannibalism.
This is very evil, I wonder how many people will be using this compost made from human bodies to grow the vegetables they will eat.
If the governor signs the bill to allow this it will go into effect May 1st.
Things just keep getting worse all the time. I cannot think of anything more disrespectful than to use human bodies as fertilizer for plants.
Does anyone wonder anymore why I have the perspective about our region that I have?
The 10,000 person naked bike ride just 40 miles down the highway from us in Portland Oregon and now this monstrous bill to compost the bodies of human beings in our state of Washington. One has to wonder what the next abomination will be upheld as good.
Does anyone remember the movie with Charlton Heston called "Soylant Green." We are almost there folks, a time when human bodies will be used for food, cannibalism.
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