It’s been brewing for years; and the hand on the knob is turning up the heat particularly now I believe. You’ve often heard people say as I have “don’t judge me.” Or perhaps “Mind your own business”, or “Worry about your own sins, God ain’t gonna ask you about mine.”
I am here to offer According to Matthew 28:16-20, I am expecting He will.
I am expecting Him to ask why we didn’t love people enough to lead them out and away from sin.
Why we didn’t make Him know to all the world as He told us to do.
But let us be encouraged. Folks are only touchy about sin if they are under conviction.
So give thanks.
Give thanks that He is still speaking to them.
Keep pressing in with prayer, listen carefully, speak in love as The HOLY SPIRIT leads.
Keep loving people.
Pray for boldness.
Pray for the HOLY SPIRIT to increase conviction upon those you love and be ready to give them the reason for your hope as these days get darker.
I don’t recall who said it but it is still with me: Being grateful is good but it’s not the same as giving Thanks.
Just a quick, short thought to share this morning. Admittedly, taken out of context and lifted from the situation.
Job 8:11-12(AMP)11 “Can the papyrus grow up without a marsh? Can the rushes or reed grass grow without water? 12 “While it is still green (in flower) and not cut down, Yet it withers before any other plant [when without water].source
I know little about papyrus (perhaps I’ll go to Duck, Duck Go a little later and read up on it) but without water, it withers faster than other vegetation. That’s what the verses say.
So do I. So do we. Without the Water of The Word, we wither quickly — before morning coffee if The Water of The Word is not our First Drink.
Papyrus, writing material of ancient times and also the plant from which it was derived, Cyperus papyrus (family Cyperaceae), also called paper plant. The papyrus plant was long cultivated in the Nile delta region in Egypt and was collected for its stalk or stem, whose central pith was cut into thin strips, pressed together, and dried to form a smooth thin writing surface.
11 “What strength do I have left, that I should wait [and hope]?And what is ahead of me, that I should be patient and endure? From Job 6 – source
I have in my soul felt what Job described here, yet for a minuscule of the misery compared to his.
And GOD delivered him to a future he could not have imagined.
This corrects me and encourages me. :) You’re welcome. Job 42:10 When Job prayed for his friends, the Lord restored his fortunes. In fact, the Lord gave him twice as much as before!
16 Job lived 140 years after that, living to see four generations of his children and grandchildren.17 Then he died, an old man who had lived a long, full life.source
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