Going off topic a little here George ~
Rene raises a very important issue!
Some of the most beautiful heartfelt messages I’ve seen, carry the sting of the superstition hook at the end of them that if snagged, can do more damage than good tempting attention to issues of superstition in religious hobbyist mode of offense.
To return the complement and sentiment in corresponding to some of the magnificent messages I received, I recently sent back a response by forwarding something I found insightfully useful which, not on purpose, went not too far over the head of the recipient hitting the apple on their head, right to the pip! I tried not to hit too far over the head into the tree! Lol or too far down into their feelings to gouge out an eye or hit them in the heart to kill the friendship.
Sure, it’s great to drop the bow and arrows and sit under the tree to indulge in the fruit of the Spirit, yet that can only be enjoyed where there is the purged and purified absence of even the slightest stain or whiff of hypocrisy in us.
Messages with tag on superstition, are to be overcome by us Godly Marksmen and women of the Kingdom of Christ.
After all, we have a lot of arrows we can tag onto some of those meaningful cries for fellowship crying out of bondage in Egyptian persecution.
After getting my response, the person who sent me the heart felt message with the sting attachment, did not return back and stand under the tree with another apple of superstition on their heads waiting for me to shoot . To my happy surprise, feelings weren’t hurt and the next message I received had no sting to be seen and I didn’t even have to lend focus upon the word suspicion or seduction!
I think what can happen is they can leave the tree and go find someone else to shoot at them or what happened in my case, the next message was really perfect...no sting attached and really sweet and endearing and might I say, very humbling.
Few know what we know. Fewer know how to know what we know. There are even less who even want to know.
We with gladness, lay our lives down for the sheep. ~
It took me a very long time to get this strategy under my belt. I had to ache and grieve under the insidious tags put upon some of the most beautiful messages! It wasn’t easy.
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