We put years of trust in Babylon to teach us. We put love, time and devotion and money into what we find out to be deception, and we are hurt, disappointed. A feeling as if we've been defiled or robbed. To think we gave all that money and commitment. Its natural that we want to say, hey that man robbed me or hurt me, but shouldn't at some point put it behind us? Is there not a way to reveal the truth without expressing animosity toward what we came out of. I have had these feelings myself. If I start talking about that system in any way, I find myself disbursing offense and have to stop myself. Offense will come, but woe to those that disburse it. Isn't that what Jesus said, or maybe Paul?
They say we are evil and lost and misled, we say they are lost and blind and misled. We can't change anything on our own and neither can they.
I came from a bad past if you look at it in one way, but it was that past that led me to God, so I say it was good that it was bad. When I talk about my past or look at my past and where I've been, I see just the good in it. It was all Gods work and in His hands, how can I say it was bad.
I see jokes and fun made at the people and pastors we left behind. I am also guilty of this. We talk, all is bad bad bad where we came from. It was God that took us there. How can we blame the pastors with their blinders on, or people that won't listen to us?
Don't get me wrong. I'm not for the deception in any way. I'm glad that God called me out of it.Its behind me now. It was good that God put me through it.
I believe that God assigns the teachers to do the stone throwing at Babylon. Ray is one of them. I know that I don't feel comfortable exposing anyone. I can in fact say a lot of good things that God did while I was in that system, in me, through me, and others as well. I saw the animosity in me today as I was talking to my wife about the worship team that we left behind. Now I can put it to rest and behind me, no animosity, only love and compassion and mercy is what I want to feel for them and all.
Oh well, all is in God hands. Who am I to make any sense?
Peace
Roy
I'm not suggesting that things don't need to be exposed. Jesus was the master of exposing, Ray is a master at it, but most of us are not either of them. Or is this one of those things that we have to see the evil to see the good? My heart says it doesn't work for me. Babylon was good for me for awhile.
If I were to hold animosity toward every time I was lied to, or stolen from, or manipulated in my life time, I would be nothing but an animosity machine.