My mind feels like its going a million miles an hour, seems a lot going on at the moment and the Stress is definitely taller than Mt Everest- unevenly balanced by doubt and frustration ... well so it feels... try stopping that from falling on you!
Its difficult to let your emotions not show, its difficult not to judge when someone has effected you directly and all you want to do is hurt them back, Thank God for the power of Self Control... I've truly come to realise how fallen this world is, how fragile people really are and weak minded Man can be. I feel that we need a shake up a wake up call; I read a horrific article in the paper yesterday about a young man who was beaten:
Apologies for the graphic image but to get my point across... now we don't know what really happened in this situation but WTFudge... what drives a man/men to do this to another Human? what's the motive? what's the justification?...The devil is thriving in this world because Man has decided to fight against each other rather than help each other... we say, 'Well its man instinct to flight each other' or we say, ' Its the way of the world', but why should it be this way? The devil is thriving because we aren't uniting! it doesn't matter about the colour of your skin or what language you speak, we all come from the same source!! we all come from the same background and all have the same father! In James 2, James speaks about favouritism and how its forbidden;
James said: ' 1 My brothers and sisters, believer in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ must not show favouritism. 2 Suppose a man comes into your meeting wearing a gold ring and fine clothes, and a poor man in filthy old clothes also comes in. 3 If you show special attention to the man wearing fine clothes and say, " Here's a good seat for you," but say to the poor man, "You stand there" or " Sit on the floor by my feet," 4 have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?" James 2: 1-4
Jesus taught us:
Luke 6:37: "Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven."
Luke 6:27: "But to you who are listen I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, 28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you...32 "Do to others as you would have them do to you."
Romans 13:10: "Love does no harm to a neighbour. Therefore love is the fulfilment of the Law."
I could reel off loads more quotes from the new testament bible that Justifies the need to Love and not Harm but to be honest what good is that? who is going to take these and act on them? is it even possible to do so in this world? or can we adopt the word and convert it into everyday now?
Freewill is a great gift if used correctly- Freewill through Gods grace was given so we can make the right choices in life; its only when we abuse this gift that things go wrong; take the article above for instance; we don't know the circumstances of why this man was attacked but if he had decided instead of going to the local kebab house to eat junk food and instead went to Tesco to buy a proper meal the situation would have been avoided; also on the other hand if the gang of men decided that instead of terrorising the locals they passed their time by helping in the local nursing home then the world would be a better place... "Sin" (use the world lightly due to the stigma attached to it) creeps up on us all- and it comes in the slightest of forms- we just need to assess the situation, remember what Jesus taught us to Do to others as you would have them do to you...also look at this as if you know that chocolate bar your about to buy with money you don't really have, is going to make you feel depressed later on that night when you look in the mirror and think I look disgusting, I'm fat etc!... we have all been there.
I suppose this is a fallen world and I suppose the attitude is, well what can we do about it now,its too far along the road to even attempt... if everyone thinks like this then that is what will happen, you imagine if everyone decided right! that's it no more pain, no more gluttony, no more deceit, no more adultery- WOW what a place this would be. And instead of the devil being victorious on this Earth we will and God will have his glory through us! It a tough world - being realistic this isn't going to happen- but if we can do this in our own little bubbles then we may be able to at least save one life or help at least one person, who will help another person and another... you get the gist...
Comments would be appreciated :-) God Bless
Please note that all comments made above are my own thoughts and feelings, God Bless
