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Kat:
Well I didn't keep up with this man. So this doesn't matter to me at all. There are lots of people dying in this world everyday.
Mat 8:22 And Jesus said to him, "Follow Me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead."
The tangle of lies that he believed and taught, will be purged in the Lake of fire.
mercy, peace, and love
Kat
seminole:
Seems cold to me. I don't keep up with eveyone's lives and I know people die everyday. Jesus said for the dead to bury the dead but was it spiritually dead that He referred to? Sorrow is felt by many people every day in this world. I think I should be compassionate if I know of heartbreak even if I don't know the people personally. I didn't know anyone in the Towers but when I saw them hit and then fall, my heart broke for all the family members that were impacted by the losses. If I see a car accident on the road or an ambulance screaming by I stop my thoughts to say a prayer for the people involved.
Seminole
hillsbororiver:
It is interesting how we can somtimes forget that even the patriarchs and prophets these men of old who wrote and were written about in the OT were flawed, not to be revered. Only One is to be revered.
The "men of old" were not given a choice to be under the Old Covenant or the New, the promises they lived under pale in comparison to the promises we were given. I can see how the called and chosen have a parallel here with the OT prophets and "the men of old," who of the called would not choose to be of the elect (if it were in their power), who of the Old Covenant would not prefer the promise of the New Covenant? But that Light in their time was not granted to either.
We should be humbled and thankful for the Light and Promises granted to us.
His Peace and Wisdom to you,
Joe
skydreamers:
Seminole,
God has blessed you with a sensitive heart. Your compassion for those suffering is a great thing. But as this thread bears out, God has made us all uniquely different, with some traits more outstanding than others. We respond differently for a number of different complex reasons. I'm not sure that this means others are necessarily "colder", but perhaps that their traits and gifts are focused in other areas, which are also a benefit to mankind. I've learned love is displayed in many different ways. I use to think I was "cold" and cried out to God to show me how to love more. While this always remains my prayer, I realize that I'm not "wired" the same as others, and so I don't try to measure my ability to love with what others say and do. I don't know much of this man, and so I tend not to react as emotionally as when it is someone I know or identify with more closely. I know, for me, I would get overwhelmed if I thought too much of all the people dying in the world, and of those who are left behind to mourn....see, I'm already starting to feel too sad...it gets me into a melancholy state that I find hard to get out of...so I guess I'd rather not go there. But that doesn't mean I don't pray for people who are suffering.
May God be with us all in our times of suffering,
Diana
hillsbororiver:
Hi Seminole,
It may seem like a cold statement but actually it is a statement of faith, I used to mourn my brother, sister and parents wondering what their ultimate fate would be, I have been blessed with the knowledge and the God given faith to no longer worry about these things.
These are the Lord's Words not Kat's (Kat by the way is as warm and caring a person as I have ever had the pleasure of meeting). This also has a spiritual meaning as does all of scripture but look at the circumstances they were spoken in, it could very well seem "cold" to some.
Mat 8:21 And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
Mat 8:22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.
His Peace and Wisdom to you,
Joe
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