I have experienced times when it is very difficult to love and respect a non listening hard nosed difficult person. Often Tess difficult to respect individuals are more interested in promoted something different than what I understand the Bible to be saying. Perhaps they feel the same about me, but I’m too scared to find out. Im thinking that Hod is allowing me to depend on His live rather than try to find respect and peace on my own strength. I’m asking God to give me grace and wisdom in my frustrations, and not force compatibility.
“Our task is not to protest the world into a certain moral conformity, but to attract the world to the saving beauty of Christ.” –Brian Zahnd
“I believe one reason why so many people do in fact fail to immerse themselves in the words of the New Testament, and neglect or even avoid them, is that the life they see there is so unlike what they know from their own experience.” - Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart
“As John described the life that is real, he used three words repeatedly: life, love, and light. In fact, he devoted three sections of his letter to the subject of Christian love. He explained that love, life, and light belong together. Read these three sections (1 John 2:7–11; 3:10–24; 4:7–21) without the intervening verses, and you will see that love, life, and light must not be separated.” - Excerpt, Be Real (1 John) by Warren W. Wiersbe
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