Thursdays Before the Throne

OK, blogger friends…

I have something on my heart that I think the Lord wants me to pass on…..

What do you do with this verse?

1 Corinthians 13: 5 & 7

5[Love] is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride);

it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly.

Love (God's love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way,

for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful;

it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].

7Love bears up under anything and everything that comes,

is ever ready to believe the best of every person,

its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances,

and it endures everything [without weakening].

Lately, I have noticed people in the family of God…..

doing exactly what these verses caution against:

Being easily offended….at both their family in the home & in the family of God…..& I have even noticed it in myself.

Where are these things taking place?

1. Perhaps you (or I) see someone hurt…..

& decide we are “never speaking to the offender” again…..

because we are SO offended for our friend.

2. Perhaps we become offended because someone has said our children were misbehaving

& that HAD to have been the fault of someone else…

3. Perhaps someone said something that we think is wrong scripturally.

4. Perhaps someone hurt our feelings, by ignoring us or saying something that sounded mean….


I think we would do well to understand that it does us no good to hold these grudges……eventually, they turn into bitterness against others…..& ultimately, against God.

Hebrews 12:14 & 15

14Strive to live in peace with everybody and pursue that consecration and holiness without which no one will [ever] see the Lord.

15Exercise foresight and be on the watch to look [after one another],

to see that no one falls back from and fails to secure God's grace

(His unmerited favor and spiritual blessing),

in order that no root of resentment (rancor, bitterness, or hatred)

shoots forth and causes trouble and bitter torment, and the many become contaminated and defiled by it--

Many a relationship has been forever ruined by the refusal to forgive…..

& the refusal to think the best of everyone…..

even those who get on our LAST nerve, & you know what I mean!

Just something I have been noticing lately…

people's skin, (myself included) seems to be growing thinner....

And we would do well if we honestly considered how Jesus would treat others if He were in our shoes.

What do you think?