“Tolerating a wrong attitude toward another person causes
you to follow the spirit of the devil, no matter how saintly you are. One
carnal judgment of another person only serves the purposes of hell in you.
Bring it immediately into the light and confess, “Oh, Lord, I have been guilty
there.” If you don’t, your heart will become hardened through and through. One
of the penalties of sin is our acceptance of it. It is not only God who
punishes for sin, but sin establishes itself in the sinner and takes its toll.
No struggling or praying will enable you to stop doing certain things, and the
penalty of sin is that you gradually get used to it, until you finally come to
the place where you no longer even realize that it is sin. No power, except the
power that comes from being filled with the Holy Spirit, can change or prevent
the inherent consequences of sin.” CHAMBERS
Our attitude toward other people is easily justified. Those who do wrongly by us .. well they are
condemned .. we expect no better .. in fact we don’t really hope that they get
better .. just that they get what they deserve.
Matthew 18:21-35 is about a man who received forgiveness for his
great failing but was unwilling to extend the same grace and mercy to someone
for their small failing. How we respond
to other people will be shaped by our own awareness and appreciation of how God
responded to us. God knew what we could
be through the power of the resurrection.
The "we" includes even those that you find so hard to love, that have brought you grief or harm. Pray that God will do a work in them, just as
He has you. Do not be so quick to judge
and condemn. I am not saying deny the
pain that may have been wrought … I am saying, give it to Jesus. ELGIN
Bondye Beni Ou (God Bless You)
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