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PATTISON’S PERSPECTIVE
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Ivan Pattison, Australia
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BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
Lets keep our faith
real!!
This is where the
rubber hits the road!!! Where the mask comes off, that is when we are behind
closed doors. You know the mask that most of us wear when are among friends,
and when we are in the public eye.
This is where one
finds out who is real and who is pretending, and where we find out the
weaknesses of others.
Just because someone
has a weakness it does not mean they are pretending, though sometimes with some
that is exactly it, but with others it is a weakness that they can’t manage and
need help with.
Romans 15:1 We then
that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please
ourselves.
How many of us today
are there for the weak, how many of us will bear the infirmities of the weak.
I find that when
someone does not have the weakness similar to someone else, then the person who
has strength in the area of another's weakness, the one who does not have the
same or similar problem, turns it into a gossip.
Romans 14:21 It is
good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother
stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
1 Corinthians 8:11
And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
Fantasy thoughts
takes a person away from Jesus, and takes that person down the wrong road, it
is a snare and a trap from satan, and we should keep away from such thoughts,
Jesus said what a man thinks is really what he\she is.
Proverbs 23:7 For as
he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his
heart is not with thee.
We have in our
churches both those who are real Christians and those who are not.
I also find that even
though there are those who want to be real and yet they are continually being
put down, and really not given the chance to become the Christian they want to
become.
Matthew 13:30 Let
both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to
the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to
burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
Christian living is
an on-going walk with our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, so it is not up to us
to judge someone because they do not fit into mind set, but for us to love
them, to care for them, and be there for them when they need us.
Romans 13:8 Owe no man anything, but to love
one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.
Are we that is you
and I fulfilling the law of LOVE, are we?
Love and Blessings
Ivan
