My utter shock is how the Christians have been behaving
When you consider what christians are not being taught in mainstream churches..
They are geared for the purpose of causing people to be judges and accusers.
The very thing we are told not to be.
People will beat a dead horse trying to prove they are right.
There comes a time when you have to know when to brush off your shoes and move on.
Some are either not able or are unwilling to hear.
The world is very loud.
I tend to internalize everything rather than point fingers outwardly.
I believe that each individual is here to learn the struggles and rewards of what we are being taught through living life itself.
I think the last 2 elections caught a lot of people off guard. I immediately took a stance on one side of the equation. I was caught off guard.
I try not to look at things like, you should or shouldn't do this or that. I try to look at things like, what should I or shouldn't I do concerning this or that?
It is always pointing the finger at myself. I can't control what others do or think or say.
And I would rather have a discussion on a topic than a personal mud slinging contest.
Nobody wins in the world of accusations. You don't learn anything by complaining.
I see the world heading in a downward spiral. I see those in power bringing more and more people under subjection and tyranny.
So I look to the Bible to see what is recommended for living under the rule of Babylon.
How should we conduct our own affairs.
The path of truth never changes but the terrain does.
Whether you live in the first century or the twenty first century, the christian path remains the same.
We are always living in the book of Acts. But modernization and technologies and new languages and intepretations change generation to generation. Those in authority come and go, some better than others at times. But that shouldn't change the path we are given to follow.
We get lazy, we forget, we get wooed into a kind of coma. And it's easy to stumble when school is not in session.
And we have come 2000 years with a lot of recesses and vacations.
The school bell is ringing and it's time to study.
I'm not surprised we act the way we do sometimes. We have been lulled into an age of idolatry.
I used to wonder how the children of Israel would always end up following other nations and other gods, when they had just been given liberty by the enemies around them. I can see it now. It's all around us. We are in it.
All we can do is spread the good news... You are Free.
That means different things to different people.
To me it means, I don't have to live according to the enslavement of Babylon even though I reside in it.
I am Free to live according to the Liberty which Christ gives me, to reside in Him, even though my physical being is in the world.
I am no longer a citizen of the world. I am simply a stranger and sojourner in the land.
This isn't something I understood fully right away. It's taken many years to come to this realization and seperation.
And everyday I understand it a little bit more.
:)
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