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Re: Disturbing Incident~Spiritual Immaturity~
Like Mark pointed out, God takes care of problems like this in His own way and in His own time. I have seen people who disrespected men and women of God, and ended up in dire straits because they were unrepentant and rebellious.
I'm not talking about situations where an angry preacher threatened the wrath of God because someone dared disagree with him--I'm talking about ACTUAL cases where people have been reduced to nothing, financially, physically, and otherwise, because they treated Christians, (elders or not) with disrespect and worse.
That's nothing to rejoice over, btw, but it is true that you WILL reap what you sow, God sees to it that His laws are fulfilled. Repentance and God's grace is the only way to overturn that "law."
A very wise elder of mine once told me to never seek revenge, because if we seek our own revenge, God doesn't have to (or won't) take up our cause. I don't know how true that is, or scriptural, but I do think we are better off if we leave it to God to sort out.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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