In Spirit & In Truth

Love

1 corinthians 13:4-8
* Love endures long and is patient and kind;
* Love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily.
* It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly.
* Love (God's love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].
* It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail.
* Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening].
* Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end]...
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Think about it. Let it correct you. If you haven't been severly corrected lately, then you are probably acting like an ignoramous. You are probably making a fool of yourself. Correction is good - I thank God for it - because I know that when I am corrected that God is changing me. Sometimes, it comes through people that have no business correcting anybody - but do I throw the gold away because of the package that it came in? Would I turn down a million dollars from that person? So, is a million dollars worth more than correction from God? One might say they didn't receive correction because "it's not what they said, but how they said it".... what about this "I didn't take that million from Joe because of how he handed it to me"... how foolish.... take the million dollars... and take the correction because that is something that money can't buy is good ole honest correction! You wouldn't turn away a million dollars b/c of the way that it was handed to you or because of who handed it to you... so why should you turn away correction? Is money worth more to you than correction? Despise not the chastening of the Lord - for whom He loves He chastens - for when we are chastened and corrected we are being dealt with as children!

posted by Chris @ 3:59 PM 2 comments

High Time

Romans 13:10-14
Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law. And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed. The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

posted by Chris @ 1:40 PM 1 comments

New post

It has been a long while since I have posted. Things have been really busy as always. I have found that the small things that we let slip into our lives are the things that keep us from moving forward for God. It's the things that we look over - or don't even realize. Like getting offended. Being offended will keep you from doing anything for God. You render yourself useless when you allow people and circumstances to "bother" you. Offences will come, but woe unto them from whom they come. We will all stand before the judgement seat of Christ and answer for we do and what we don't do. I will answer for what I have done. You will answer for what you have done. You won't answer for me and I will not answer for you. I say to myself "I will not get offended today for any reason".

posted by Chris @ 11:58 AM 2 comments