People will make mistakes. People will say and do things that will offended each other. People may say things without realizing it is hurting others. People will be offended over semantics. It is the Lord's desire they repent when they make a mistake against HIM or His Body. We are to show forth His Fruit of Love to lead people back to repentance.
You must walk and know living this act of Love become you. Love is NOT offended! If you hold resentment, bitterness, anger, hate, jealousy, malice, or the likes against your brethren or others, then you will not be able to walk in the full Light of HIM as those things will blind you from hearing HIM.
Matthew 5:22 (AMP) But I say to you that everyone who continues to be [a]angry with his brother or harbors malice (enmity of heart) against him shall be [b]liable to and unable to escape the punishment imposed by the court; and whoever speaks contemptuously and insultingly to his brother shall be [c]liable to and unable to escape the punishment imposed by the Sanhedrin, and whoever says, You [d]cursed fool! [You empty-headed idiot!] shall be [e]liable to and unable to escape the hell (Gehenna) of fire.
When one is offended, they will act and speak against such or such types of person with negative bias. Unless you walk in the fullness of Christ through His Love which holds NO OFFENSE, how will you be able to bear the Fruit of the Holy Spirit? Will we just talk about bearing it or will we manifest it? When we manifest His Love through our actions, we are believing! Otherwise, we are only giving HIM lip service and our hearts will be far from HIM.
Forgive and let go so that you may be Free in HIM. Forgive and let it go of what someone has just said to offend you. Forgive and let go of what someone has just gossiped of you. Is HE not your vindicator that you must defend yourself? Forgive others so you may begin to understand the depth of forgiveness that has been bestowed unto you by HIM through the Cross.
2 Timothy 2:24-26 (AMP) And the servant of the Lord must not be quarrelsome (fighting and contending). Instead, he must be kindly to everyone and mild-tempered [preserving the bond of peace]; he must be a skilled and suitable teacher, patient and forbearing and willing to suffer wrong. 25 He must correct his opponents with courtesy and gentleness, in the hope that God may grant that they will repent and come to know the Truth [that they will perceive and recognize and become accurately acquainted with and acknowledge it],26 And that they may come to their senses [and] escape out of the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him, [henceforth] to do His [God’s] will.
If you lose your house or job, will you be offended at your secular leaders such as Obama or others? Many hold resentment against their secular leaders as it is grossly portrayed even here on Facebook and as many Christians mock him. Am I defending Obama? No, I am trying to protect you. Does the federal or state government provide jobs to feed you or does God? So if God is our provider, then should we not go to HIM for all things? Perhaps, if you lose your job, house, or the likes, God is telling you to get on your knees and pray to understand His Righteousness through His judgments on you and this nation.
Whether one thinks other people are evil, deceived, or not, it is not your place to mock people whether they are believers or not. All human beings are God's highest creation who have been made in His image and if you have slanderous things to say about them, you are mocking the work of God's hands. You are thus mocking the Creator. Is it your place to judge those outside the House of God? Will we continue to mock the other people who believe in other religions? Will we continue to mock our secular leaders? Will we continue to mock people who makes mistakes? It is God's WILL that NO ONE PERISHES!
1 Corinthians 5:12-13 (AMP) What [business] of mine is it and what right have I to judge outsiders? Is it not those inside [the church] upon whom you are to pass disciplinary judgment [passing censuring sentence on them as the facts require]?13 God alone sits in judgment on those who are outside. Drive out that wicked one from among you [expel him from your church].
"Love does not take account of the evil done to it. It pays not attention to the suffering wrong. Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening]."
Spend your time in the Light knowing Jesus so that you may know LOVE. Many things including your gifts will pass away. The spiritual gifts bestowed to us are a means to draw closer to HIM so we may know the breadth, length, height, and depth His Love. Unless we know LOVE, we are NOTHING.
Ephesians 3:18-19 (AMP That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God’s devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it];19 [That you may really come] to know [practically, [a]through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses [b]mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] [c]unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and [d]become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]!
You must through His Grace experience the Love of Christ so that you will know such Love surpasses knowledge. We can acknowledge Love but can we know the realm of His Love that surpasses mere knowledge of it? Yes, we can if we walk in the Fullness of Christ.
Fire of God Ministries
Steve Yong Kim
August 12, 2012
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