Division is a weapon of our enemy!!!
It’s great to have opinions and even state those opinions, but we must learn to silence our opinions when we begin to get heated in our opinions! When we arguing a mute point that has nothing to do with kingdom principles, and or just that our opinion and sometimes our own personal conviction. All to often we argue our opinions to the point of causing division and separation to the person in front of you, a person that in your heart you truly love and even care for, yet frustration is rising in your heart toward that person whom you love just because their opinion is different than yours! Then later that day you begin to gossip about the person whom you love to others to make sure that you have enough people aligned with you, no longer about your opinion but about your pride that you are right and they are wrong! And before you know it because of the sake of your opinion there is such a wall between you and the one with whom you claim to love, that there is division, you no longer hang out together, call each other, lift each other up, or even pray for each other! Offense has started to take hold of your heart all for the sake of your OPINIONS and yours being right and better! let me ask this at the end of the day how has light, Gods kingdom been expanded! How has Love won? Has light grown or has darkness expanded all for the sake of opinions! We have forgotten all about 1 Corinthians 13, we have forgotten all about being a Christian - you know Christ like! But oh our opinion has been heard!!! Now hear me out I am not talking about standing up for our biblical principles, or even doctoral issues - I am only talking about personal opinions on things such as our voting choices, what school options are best, whether we vaccinate or not, how about whether we have hymns or contemporary worship and on and on it goes!!! There are great opinions and valid points on both sides of the fence but how is arguing and division ok? Why is it we can’t have differences of opinion and still love each other! Opinions are only wrong when they don’t match ours! It saddens me so much to hear disagreements turned ugly, it saddens me when we loose sight of love, grace and mercy the very things we need! I love seeing good healthy debating, and love seeing people passionate about their beliefs and their opinions, but what I don’t love is when those things turn to division, separation, arguments, gossiping, put downs, name calling and down right rudeness non of which are attributes of love! Jesus lived on this earth and spread love even when He was speaking truth - we have lost sight of His principles - such as love your neighbor as yourself or even extend forgiveness as I have forgiven you or how about we just get back the main thing which is love! Love the one in front of you by respecting their opinions and agreeing to disagree, by being mature enough to leave your uncontrolled emotions out of the conversations, and moving on to something you can agree with! By not making people feel stupid for their opinions, for not gossiping about that person to others to make sure you have enough opinions on your side. People, church, body of Christ we must get back to love - it’s a plea from a my heart but even greater plea from our heavenly Fathers heart! One that is calling out Angel come higher - love the one in front - let your opinions go - even let their opinions go - see beyond even their opinions - see how you can love them, encourage them - extend grace and mercy to them!” So as the Father calls me up - I beckon you to come higher in His love and extend that same love to others - read over 1 Corinthians 13 again and remind yourself what love truly is I Corinthians 13 NLT “If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing.” “If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing. Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance. Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless. When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely. Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.” 1 Corinthians 13:3-13 NLT
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ANGELThere is a constant ebb and flow of seasons in my life: some easy, some not so easy. But with every season I am learning to focus in on Jesus, see His face and allow myself to be immersed in the process so that at the end of the day I look more like Him! Thanks for joining the journey!
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