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Tuesday 18 June 2013

Jesus spent most of His time teaching His disciples the best way to resolve conflicts and explaining that there will be some conflict and resistance. "Beware if all men speak well of you..", Jesus said. Why would you have to beware of that? It could be that God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow and the realities of human nature are quite awesome. There are somethings about our nature that will change. There are other things that will never change and altar or erase the need for healing. Salvation means healing. I want all men to speak well of me( in that I want to represent my Grandfather, father who ensured I would eat between birth and nineteen(see Psalms 27.10), and my faith in Christ appropriately) and I aim for that since I am trying to be a good human( golden rule taught every day between grade 1-7- google it) but you have to see that Jesus and John the Baptist, Paul the Apostle and the other disciples met with some unusual people who did not just want to be friends or be at peace with their own blessings of wife, maidservants, donkeys, goats, children, seed for wheat or their allotted social influence and powers. Choir members always feel respected in spite of their highly influential day jobs. Jesus was faithfully minding His own business when he spoke mercifully of the immoral woman(Luke 7:36-50) although His colleagues did not agree. There is a movie entitled the Immoral Woman (1979) apparently. You don't need to watch it because it might be programmed into your phone anyway so that you won't have too much moral or social authority; so I was told. So to deal with that, you can read Mark 3 and understand the part that says be shrewd, know that you are like sheep amongst wolves and be as wise as possible with God's leading but as gentle as a dove. It's only a hundred years for each human heart beat roughly, so why spend so much time being angry? Forgive as you wish to be forgiven and this way the tormentors( Matthew 18:34) will not come. Also, if the wisest man known on earth( Solomon) could make mistakes, then your goal in being wise is to avoid as many mistakes as possible but if you aim to be perfect, God will remind you that He is your father every now and again. He wants to be needed but it is not soo good for you to be too needy or dependent on any other soul beside His. Read Psalms 42. You might buy the wrong bin liners for recycling and your husband or wife might get angry and milk it to get leverage or adjust the power balance in the home with 10 hours of nagging; so abusive!!!!!!!!!!!!! Peter and Paul the Apostle could not have conceived of their work when they prepared the first Latin Vulgate( It may have been a less contemporary generation actually-See John 17) or that Martin Luther would have run away from their Declarations but it happened. Reads Acts 2.-The intention here is anecdotal really.

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