Hiding In Plain Sight
"The entire law is summed up in a single command: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' If you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other. So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature. For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit..." (Gal. 5:14-17).
- Everyone wants to be CONNECTED.
"We are many parts of one body, and we all belong to each other" (Rom. 12:5). -
Become good at REPAIRING broken relationships.
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God" (Matt. 5:9).
Two first steps:
- Discipline yourself back to JESUS.
"He has lost connection with the Head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together..." (Col. 2:19).
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Ask yourself the TOUGH questions.
"For if anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself" (Gal. 6:3).
"You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free" (John 8:32).
- Discipline yourself back to JESUS.
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There's nothing as powerful as building a STRING HISTORY with people.
"For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised" (Heb. 10:36). "Let your forbearance be known unto all men. The Lord is at hand" (Phil. 4:5 ASV).