What about forgiveness? What about love your enemies? There is a great temptation right now to return evil for evil. The born again believing church needs to be busy with spreading the good news of the gospel and sowing and demonstrating the forgiveness of sins that Jesus paid a high price for. Politicking is a way that seemeth right to man but leads to death. The only possible antidote for godless, murderous, cold and hard-hearted attitudes of certain people is the gospel. We must not become like that. We have already been forewarned that this world would get darker and very dark. This is so the light of Christ that we carry can shine even brighter and be seen.
1Co 1:26
For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble,
are called:
1Co 1:27
But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty;
1Co 1:28
And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen,
yea, and things which are not, to bring to nought things that are:
1Co 1:29
That no flesh should glory in his presence.
What you said reminded me of the story of Jonah. He was so angry that God didn't destroy Nineveh, they were so evil.
It was hot while Jonah waited for God to act. Getting angrier as each hour passed.
So God out of his mercy created a covering for Jonah's head. But the next morning it was gone.
God told Jonah to tell Nineveh to repent or He was coming with judgment. This was God's mercy and grace upon that nation, like Jonah's head.
But the people of Nineveh took God up on his offer and they repented. So God spared them.
Now the covering that was over Jonah's head was over Nineveh.
But because Jonah could not retain his desire for vengeance and retribution, it was removed from him.
We need to be careful that we don't step outside God's grace on our heads. Even though it is the evil in this world that entices us to feel or react to different situations. It is a lust, and we have to refrain from it.
Jonah asked God, why did you spare them?
Jon 4:9
And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry,
even unto death.
Jon 4:10
Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
Jon 4:11
And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and
also much cattle?
Replace the word gourd with grace, and maybe you will hear it like I do.
Gen 6:8
But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.
Heb 12:15
Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble
you, and thereby many be defiled;
Stay vigilent friends. Try not to lean towards the left or the right but follow that strait and narrow path by which grace we are able to abide there in.
I can't resist
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