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Ninny:
Thanks Joe and everyone else!
What really makes us angry and bothers us about other people is what God wants to change in us!
Sometimes a person will post on here a question or an idea and other people jump on it and everything gets so complicated! I look at that and say (to myself) what is the deal here  ??? I never join in those discussions because I imagine that God is telling me, "this bothers you because you are a person who likes to add your 2 cents worth." (Like God would know THAT about me!)  ::) I look at me and think, "God am I really like that?" A pastor I know once said, "what boils up in us is what God wants to skim off!" Ewww! That is just so ugly! It reminds me of the nasty looking stuff that rises up to the surface when you boil a big piece of meat it's not very appetizing!  :P God must really love me He just keep skimming stuff off!  :D
Listening not very quietly!
Kathy ;)

Deborah-Leigh:
You bring forward an interesting angle to patience Beloved. Submission is not without power and wisdom.

This reminds me of this scripture :

Luke 20 : 18 Everyone falling on that stone (kicking and falling against the goads perhaps?) will be BROKEN (broken like a wild horse is broken and made obedient perhaps?) but on whomever it FALLS ( like out of the blue it falls without expectation on those who are self assured) it will grind him to POWDER (like wow, there is nothing left of the fabled self reliance dishonourable vessel)

Better to be broken and not pulverised! Yet this work of patience is a process that assures that once we have been broken we shall lack nothing and we shall be perfect.

James 1 : 4 But let patience have its perfect work that you may be   (broken ) perfect and complete, lacking nothing.

It is wise to be broken and wisdom is required to let patience have its perfect work in us.

This scripture comes to mind for me to also reflect on :

Heb 12 : 11 All discipline for the present indeed does not seem to be joyous, but grievous; but afterward it gives back peaceable fruit of righteousness to the ones having been EXERCISED by it. Like Ray is experiencing that peaceable fruit evidenced in his latest communication to us. Ref quote from Ray : I have had not one anxious day about my condition after those three initial days of emotional turmoil when first presented with the raw facts concerning my dire prognostication at the cancer center back in July.

May God continue to bless Ray in his wonderful example to us, and give him the great spiritual strength to endure and to each one of us the same as we are exercised through our own personal struggles with pain and suffering.


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Vangie:
This is such a wonderful thread.  I'm absorbing so much from everyone who's contributed.  Thanks to all for sharing.

Love in Christ,
Vangie

Akira329:
Along with James 3 and Luke 11
I think of 2 Peter 2:20:

2Pe 2:20  For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
2Pe 2:21  For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
2Pe 2:22  But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

aqrinc:

Joe,

I find this Scripture again jumps out at me; i have learned that in part, wisdom is the ability to glean
knowledge from that which someone says even if they do not say it well enough.

george.

Job 11:6:
And that he would show you the secrets of wisdom, that they are double to that which is! Know therefore
that God exacts of you less than yours iniquity deserves.

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