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loretta:
I need to change my byline.  It is NOT easy to show grace to others when you know that they will have their time in the lake of fire!

I thought that I was past this, that I was beyond offense.  This Christian walk seems more like a race in which you take 3 steps forward and 2 steps back.  This past week has left me feeling resentful at trifling issues - a neighbor does not reply to my sms, a cousin ignores my fb comment, a niece has become haughty, the husband came home late last night.  OK, maybe the issues are more than just trivial, with layers upon layers. I know I will feel better for the moment if I address these issues, but they are so inconsequential that I'd rather not.  But I don't want to feel this way either.  I want to be able to really extend grace.  Earlier, in babylon, I use to think that it had to do with my prayer life, that was causing me to slip up, a sure sign that I wasn't dying to my flesh every day(works?).  Now I'm not so sure.

Rhys 🕊:
It can be a trial to do what is right. To extend your hand to people who want to slap you in the face is hard to do. His truth shines through us even without words at times and it hits deep. I say something of God's truth and they step back and we seemed good friends but something hit them that challenge them and inside they start asking questions. You have to let them ask and they may open up to you or not. We know in all this that God is doing His will.

As He leads us into more of His truth you will find you are more empowered by His spirit and you become what you thought you couldn't become. Sometimes we have to feel certain ways to see what we need to see. Some days it's terrible and you wonder how things will improve but we need to remember He is in charge of every little detail and will not fail us. Sometimes you feel you can't go on anymore and that's when God says off we go. He knows what He is doing and all is of Him. So be encouraged your in His hands and He won't let you go.

You already make a difference. I read your posts and you come across as very genuine and open and love shines through you and you make people like me feel like I'm not alone in my similar issues too.

Bless you

Rhys

Dave in Tenn:
I absolutely LOVE this scripture:

Heb 4:11  Therefore, let us exert ourselves to enter into that rest, that not anyone fall in the same example of disobedience.
Heb 4:12  For the Word of God is living, and powerfully working, and sharper than every two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of both soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge of the thoughts and intentions of the heart;
Heb 4:13  and there is no creature unrevealed before Him; but all things are naked and laid open to His eyes, with whom is our account.

I could post the entire chapter--even the entire epistle...but the part that really strikes me is verse 11:  Let us EXERT OURSELVES (KJV: LABOR) to enter into that rest.

What a thought!  LABOR to ENTER REST.

Now surely, the full fruit of the "entering this rest" is in resurrection.  But that isn't to say that we also do not now EXERT OURSELVES to "enter it" now, with what grace through faith He has given/is giving us.

There isn't anything easy about COMING to the point you are talking about.  Not only does it not seem like it is three steps forward, two back...sometimes it seems to me like it is one step forward and three back.  It's not NATURAL to extend grace and forgiveness to everybody all the time.  It must be learned.  And how it is learned is through EXERTION, which must in most of our cases include failure.  The Lord is not up in heaven looking to strike us down for these failures.  We FAIL in order to learn.  It is US who needs to be "able to judge of the thoughts and intentions of the heart" and see the "creature revealed".  He already knows, understands, and has prepared a place for us. 

Lord Jesus is our example.  Follow Him.  He didn't have an easy time of it either, to say the least.  But He endured, and with His life in you, so will you.  It's settled already, we just need to catch up.   :)  These 'small' issues are dealt with before we are fit to deal with the larger ones.  And the ones closer to 'home' are to be dealt with before we are fit to extend them in any meaningful way to the whole world.  Hang in there...of the INCREASE of His Government, there shall be no end.

End of sermon.   :D   

Rene:

--- Quote from: loretta on August 25, 2013, 06:52:49 AM ---
I thought that I was past this, that I was beyond offense. 


--- End quote ---

If you were past feeling offended by others, you would be close to PERFECT. ;)  As it is, we are NOT perfect, however, we are being perfected, i.e. if Christ is working in us.  This process is a humbling experience that will show us up for who we truly are at heart.  It is a good thing when we experience and recognize our shortcomings.  It keeps us from thinking too highly of ourselves. 8)

René 

Dennis Vogel:
It's relatively easy to give up excessive sins of the flesh, drugs, sex, food, smoking, etc. compared to our ego's. At least in my experience.

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