Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Forgiving God, forgiveness from others
I just got through reading Joseph Prince's Daily Devotional I receive in my e-mail. It is an awesome little teaching on how God love's us no matter how we fail. It's so true. But I want to add to it. We live in a NATURAL world while we walk in the spirit. Yes God forgives and loves us no matter what we do, but will your husband love you after yelling and screaming at him in front of the children? Does your husband love you if you never say you're sorry and repent? Does the yelling and screaming not affect your children? Will your children learn how to treat others like Jesus treated people if we misbehave? When your child that you've allowed to yell and scream at you (since they've observed you and your wife screaming at each other) goes to work and yells and screams at employees, it should be understood that your child WILL LOSE THEIR JOB! God loves us, but the natural world we live in doesn't! I believe God gave us instructions on how to behave for OUR benefit and so we can take as many people as we can to heaven with us! When we repent, we make a complete turn and go in the other direction. We must purpose to correct our wrong behavior. I've made mistakes in my life and when I did repent, I no longer make those mistakes. I believe if we look at sin like touching a hot burner, we might have touched it when we were two years old, but NO WAY would I touch it as a mature adult. In the Bible, perfect is often translated as mature. "Be ye perfect even as I am perfect". If we spend time in God's Word, He will help us become perfect. "faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God" There are some things I am mature in, there are other things I'm growing in. God loves me no matter what, but I want to make a difference in the circle I'm in. I hope you do too! God is so good! Let's purpose to treat family and others better than the day before. Let's become mature in our walk so we can lead well because we are ALL leading in some way. Maturity in the Bible was not based on age, but on the way individuals handled everyday life with their family and others. Elders were chosen according to correct outward behavior not according to how much scripture they could quote! (Read I Timothy 3) Our behavior reflects how much we do study the Word of God and our behavior speaks so much louder than our words do! Jesus was the best leader of all and Jesus was love in the flesh! Paul was a great leader, too! He wrote I Corinthians 13 that speaks of what love is and about becoming mature! God Bless everybody!
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