Thursday, July 3, 2014

The INFLAMMATION of CONDEMNATION is never from God. The CURE is love.

THE INFLAMMATION OF CONDEMNATION.
What's on my mind is how much I love Pastor Chuck's footnotes in my daily Bible readings. Reading ahead in Job to chapter 36, we see Elihu professing to speak on God's behalf. Pastor Chuck said, "I hear that alot. It is glorious when it really does come from God. Other times, it is something I know God wouldn't say because it's very judgmental and condemning. I remind myself, "There is therefore NOW NO condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus." Romans 8:1
May God help us NOW to stop judging and condemning one another's words, hearts, lives, whatever. We are not capable of judging others and commanded not to judge others. Whenever we accuse someone, the plank in our own eye is all that is noticed. The inflammation from condemnation is not from God. Not ever.
THE CURE
Trust and Obey the word of God. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a "Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails."

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