Have You Been to WWPF Lately?

[Barb]

Originally Posted by Pressing-On

How do we weigh out our arguments for or against what we do/don't do, how we look/don't look and our degree of separation when the Word says, "We are epistles read and seen of all men."?

Of course anything we are or become starts in our heart. Whatever is in our heart is going to show in our actions, behaviour, communication, and dress.

We can't stop at the inward, IMO, and dismiss the outward.

The outward will always be an individual choice. That choice will lead that person to a group that upholds that choice.

My only point in the choice is that tolerance for choices and "love" emanating must be who we are.

And, Barb, if love had ruled the day in the hearts of all men, the split of choices would not be a factor or a conversation. Standards would not be a conversation. No one cares what someone's personal preferences are, in any group, as long as "love shows forth to "good works".

I know there are people in every faction that carry "love". It's important to them. So, as "birds of a feather, flock together", we associate ourselves, in our groups with those people that clearly define who we are and what we believe to be God's directive - "love for one another".

We can't throw every group down the drain for some, even leaders who present the wrong view of God's directive.

We are in a situation, right now, and the Lord clearly showed me what my mind should be on the situation. A distinct divide and a correlation, at the same time, between Psalm 74 and 84. The first - utter disregard for the things of God, destruction by man's carnal desires. The latter - "How amiable are they tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!"

The church is still a beautiful thing no matter what man can and will make it!

So, we remain a satisfied doorkeeper - it's better than living in the tent of wickedness.

Just my thoughts......

I thank you for your thoughts, Barb, as well as CC1 - it's beginning to be a very interesting and deep conversation. Loving that!

God bless!

I don't know, Pressing-On...I just don't know...

While it is true that our lives are read of all men, the outside can be deceiving.

Jesus and the brethren walked up on a tree that from a distance gave an illusion of something it wasn't...it had leaves, covering, but no fruit.

Prayerfully you and CC1 know I am not dismissing the outward, however, I just cannot lay it all on that.

God sees the heart and knows...we may hide from others, but He really knows, even more than we do what our heart is all about.

Those who would cast others to yon lower regions for watching TV...mercy, it boggles my little pea brain as to how they can do it. Have a conviction...certainly, but it would seem that Sanctified folk could show some love and compassion for those who haven't arrived at their particular level of understanding.