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“Chicken! Bwaawck bwaawck bwaawck!” Children on the playground pretend to be tougher than they are, and taunt others into doing deeds which are in effect, kind of dumb or downright dangerous. Kids don’t like to be called chicken, or be to be seen trying to get out of a punishment that all his mates are enduring.
These kind of puffed up playground games are just that, children’s games. However, a new kind of game in the sandbox of theology is emerging and that is the ‘bwaack bwaawck bwaawck! You’re too chicken to go through the Tribulation’ game.
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Day 30 of 35 — Soul Detox
2 Timothy 2:14-26
Devotional
The right people will build you up and lead you towards Christ, but if you are around the wrong people they can be very toxic. They can hurt your soul. They can hurt your relationships. They can lead you into temptation. They can drag you down. They can very easily take you away from God’s best.
In what ways have toxic relationships polluted your life and your relationship with God?
via Soul Detox | YouVersion.com.
Did you read the Text?
Did it smart?
14 Keep reminding people of this, and charge them solemnly before the Lord not to engage in word-battles. They accomplish nothing useful and are a catastrophe for the hearers!
via 2 Timothy 2:14-26 CJB;NIV – Keep reminding people of this, and – Bible Gateway.
19 Nevertheless, God’s firm foundation stands, stamped with these words:
“The Lord knows his own,”
and,
“Let everyone who claims he belongs to the Lord
stand apart from wrongdoing.”
via 2 Timothy 2:14-26 CJB;NIV – Keep reminding people of this, and – Bible Gateway.
And finally; how blunt can GOD be?!
23 But stay away from stupid and ignorant controversies — you know that they lead to fights,
via 2 Timothy 2:14-26 CJB;NIV – Keep reminding people of this, and – Bible Gateway.
Been talking stupid and ignorant controversies?
I am convinced these could be dialogue or monologue prison pits. Either way we are to AVOID them like the plague. Takes practice, doesn’t it? :)
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