Big Banners Or Big Hearts
By Saly Wright & Mary Bierman
"Yeah, though I speak with the tongues of men and angels and have not love
it profitith me nothing". It seems to me when we are putting others down
for their beliefs, no matter how wrong they are, this is not showing love.
"Love suffereth long and is kind ". If we are going to try to correct
someone it should be done in love and in all kindness. Hey, we all make
mistakes, and we all have a lot to learn. Let him who is perfect cast the
first "stone". However, until we reach perfection let us not throw stones
at Yahweh's children.
Our Father wants mercy, a contrite heart. Not
a white flag flying high held on a pole in our hand that has all of our
do & don'ts, an doctrines written on it. He wants us to be changed from
the person we are in the natural that we read about in Gal. 5: to what we
read about a few verses lower than those verses in Gal. 5:
Hearts to love, have compassion, all the characteristics of Him in our
daily walk. When people look at us they see a person that in trials,
testings, what ever they may be, how they act is in the love like we see
in 1 Cor.13: When everyone else is loosing their cool, they are at peace.
When others are angry, and stormy in actions, they even in being upset,
act in love, speak in love, feel love.
Our lives needs to be so reflective of our Father's character, that when
others look at us they can say, "I don't know how they can act so
peaceful, so loving, so what ever, it just simply is not natural." That
leaves us an open door, through a silent witness, to speak volumes.
One have have a banner that is so weighty with writing that they can
hardly hold it up. It will not be the banner they look at, but the one
holding the banner.
Phil.4:8 Whatsoever is lovely, of truth, of good report, think upon these
things.
© 06/07/1998 Saly Wright & Mary Lois Bierman
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