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@Ziggy Patience / longsuffering may indeed be more of a keyword in the NT than we sometimes realize... :) (Part of the Fruit of the Spirit in Galatians 5...:) )I had a phone call from my mother in law tonight. You know she would call right in the middle of Donald Trump's speech tonight at Turning Point.
I like listening to what he has to say.
This isn't a political response...
At first I was a bit impatient because Mum likes to talk.. and talk.. and talk..
maybe a couple years ago I would of found an excuse to call her back or tell her I was in the middle of something.
I shut off the internet, I don't watch tv anyways.. and turned my full attention to this 86 year old woman who lives alone and is going blind, and is telling me she is bored and lonely.
And after almost an hour of just chatting about nothing really, she was tired and was going to go watch something and go to bed.
Sometimes I wonder if that will be the last phonecall. Sometimes I forget
By the Grace of God I didn't forget tonight. And I am thankful for the conversation we had.
Would that be considered being a part of that grace of God we show to the world?
I had to persevere through that, wanting to say I'll call you back later.
I still have a lot of that me me me in me.
And I can see it. And that is an act of Grace right there.
God shows me where I need improvement.
And I can either change or go against against it.
I want to learn to be better, more caring, more understanding, more patient...
I want to be more
salty :)
Thank You
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Ziggy -
A gold (hoop type I believe), was a (tag, mark, easy identification) to identify a slave.
(Ie captured prey).
Taking the golden earring off from a slave (prey),
Was gesture of revealing freeing that slave (prey) From slavery, From a man being his master.
It wasn't a gesture of oooh aaaah, I'm taking all this VALUABLE gold (fashioned into ear-RINGS- hoop style)...but rather a gesture of
without a person wearing such an ear-RING...
They became Equally Free, eliminating...the stigma and outward sign of BONDED, enslaved, to another person.
Eliminating the BONDAGE (enslavement ) of one man (against his will), enslaved to another man....IT Opened the option for preaching, (according to ones own WILLINGNESS, ie Freewill), to hear and learn and willingly become, (Bonded by choice unto a Just God).
THE...point.
Men unwillingly bonded (enslaved) to men...
Are not always treated Justly, by their master.
Men willingly bonded to God...their chosen Master...
Are treated Beyond Just, with Blessings, Gifts, Comfort, etc.
Glory to God,
Taken
A gold (hoop type I believe), was a (tag, mark, easy identification) to identify a slave.
(Ie captured prey).
Taking the golden earring off from a slave (prey),
Was gesture of revealing freeing that slave (prey) From slavery, From a man being his master.
It wasn't a gesture of oooh aaaah, I'm taking all this VALUABLE gold (fashioned into ear-RINGS- hoop style)...but rather a gesture of
without a person wearing such an ear-RING...
They became Equally Free, eliminating...the stigma and outward sign of BONDED, enslaved, to another person.
Eliminating the BONDAGE (enslavement ) of one man (against his will), enslaved to another man....IT Opened the option for preaching, (according to ones own WILLINGNESS, ie Freewill), to hear and learn and willingly become, (Bonded by choice unto a Just God).
THE...point.
Men unwillingly bonded (enslaved) to men...
Are not always treated Justly, by their master.
Men willingly bonded to God...their chosen Master...
Are treated Beyond Just, with Blessings, Gifts, Comfort, etc.
Glory to God,
Taken
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