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2 Corinthians, 2019, Questions

Separate

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My first acquaintance with the verse came from the King James Translation and it read this way:

2 Corinthians 6:17 (KJV) 17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.  source

Over the years I have read other translations; the message remains the same. When we have exchanged our sins for JESUS’s righteousness we don’t have to live like those who are still on the hook for payment.

So do we? How many ways of the unbeliever can we name that we have laid aside; that we longer practice?

So how separate are we? Is it enough that we can be readily identified as a believer by unbelievers? Yes?

Good! You are a light in this dark world! Keep shining!

2 Corinthians 6:17 Amplified Bible (AMP) 17 “So come out from among unbelievers and be separate,” says the Lord, “And do not touch what is unclean; And I will graciously receive you and welcome you [with favor], source
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Choice

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Something I read in my Journey Magazine has me pondering still.

In part, it read: “I think that’s something we all want to know — that we are really loved.  . . .  I still found myself testing her, pushing her, wanting to know what she really thought.”

The writer then went on to talk about GOD’s love for us; how He proved His love through JESUS.

And so here I am writing about relationships: horizontal and vertical.  Horizontal being human to human and vertical, human to GOD.

We can be deeply, I mean really, loved by someone but when we allow thoughts and circumstances and disagreements and differences to blind us, we fail to own that love and we feel unloved.

It’s the same with GOD. He for sure, without conditions, without measure, loves every soul ever born or yet to be conceived but so many do not receive His love. Why? The Bible says they have been blinded. (see 2 Corinthians 3:14 and 2 Corinthians 4:4)

And even though He proved Himself through the substitutionary Life, Death, Burial and Resurrection of JESUS the CHRIST, until we believe and rely upon (receive) His Atonement, we keep doubting He loves us; and we keep acting out that unbelief, wanting Him over and over again to prove to our human senses that He does indeed love us.

This I have learned. He cannot do that.
It is not with the human senses that we believe and receive His love, it is by OUR CHOICE. We choose to believe and He ensures that we do.

Love, faith, relationships — all are gifts. We can unpack them or not, it’s our choice.

An Afterthought: You know even after we have personally received and relied upon His Atonement for us, if we choose to live by our senses instead of the gift of faith He gave us, we will pout for Him to prove to our flesh that He loves us.  It’s a process. And we are progressing one good choice after another!

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2 Corinthians, 2019, Praying with my Sisters and Brothers in Holy Faith

Home

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As I begin this post to publish come morning I am counting gifts; my life is one huge gift with treasures loaded each day. Today one of my treasures went HOME. After many months of trying to keep cancer at bay, she closed her eyes here to open them THERE. I miss her already. Her laugh. Her generosity. Her eager intellect. She was a sponge for the Word of GOD. She was/is my Sister in JESUS and my friend. 

 2 Corinthians 5: 1 For we know that if the tent, our earthly home, is torn down, we have a building from God—a home not made with human hands, eternal in the heavens.

5 Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave to us the Spirit as a pledge. 6 Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord— 7 for we walk by faith, not by sight— 8 we are of good courage, I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord. source

See you in The Morning, Rosalie.

2 Corinthians, 2019, Gospel of Matthew, Salvation

Food, Water and Word

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2 Corinthians 1:3 Blessed [gratefully praised and adored] be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort,
4 who comforts and encourages us in every trouble so that we will be able to comfort and encourage those who are in any kind of trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
5 For just as Christ’s sufferings are ours in abundance [as they overflow to His followers], so also our comfort [our reassurance, our encouragement, our consolation] is abundant through Christ [it is truly more than enough to endure what we must].  source

Here’s the thinking train: The Father loves us as much as He loves JESUS and He let JESUS suffer. 
He loves us, we have to know He will allow us to suffer too; I am confident though we will never be allowed to suffer to the extent that JESUS did, nor could we. All our suffering has a purpose – to save us from ourselves and perhaps help those we love or even needy strangers to see JESUS for themselves. All that JESUS suffered had a purpose – again, it was us; to save us from hell – eternal death. 

BUT. The Father also comforted JESUS and He comforts us. Read our verses again. 
If you recall Matthew 4, you know JESUS was so comforted that angels actually came and physically attended Him.
He had been forty days in the wilderness where satan tried with everything he had and still failed to distract Him, discourage Him, dissuade Him, or in any wise defeat Him. The Father allowed that!
BUT when the work was done. Comfort came!  The angels came and ministered to Him. I am imagining they came with food and water and Word from the Father.
Comfort comes in proportion to the suffering.