In 40 years of ministry on the mission field and being in ministry since a small child tonight I am sitting in front of my computer so sad...never before have I seen men killing each other like I have seen on this trip to the states. I am writing with tears running down my cheeks...How can we kill each other and survive? I know we all have those we do not agree with... personality conflicts but do our children need to know all these things?
I have been to the cannibal indians in the deep dark jungles...I know the fear of looking at naked indians with bones through their noses. I know the fear of watching them talk in their own language and wondering what they were saying about me. I know the fear of squatting at their fires, eating what they gave me. I saw poisoned arrows handy on the ground and knew anything could happen...
Yet that was out in the jungles among bloodthirsty cannibals ... but tonight it is not over the souls of those I weep it is over the souls of our own oneness Jesus Name people. Ministers that discuss other ministers in front of their children and church folks...Ministers that plant hate and distrust among those they love the most...What will be the fate of the innocent? Do we really win when we lose our children to hate?
Gal 5:15
15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
KJV
Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written: "It is mine to avenge; I will repay," says the Lord. On the contrary: "If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head." Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good (
Romans 12:17-21).
Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing (
1 Peter 3:9).
Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates his brother is still in the darkness. Whoever loves his brother lives in the light, and there is nothing in him to make him stumble (
1 John 2:9-10).
With this in mind I chose NOT to speak evil of my brothers and sisters...
(just a few thoughts from a mother in Zion)
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