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Saturday, November 22, 2014

 

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Search Me O God
By Bro. G.V. "Rene" Growcott


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We are all weak, we are all erring, we shall all continually fail of perfection - but we MUST all work together in compassion and understanding to build the unity and communion of the Body of Christ. We must be very careful that we judge and decide on FACTS, and we must be sure our "facts" ARE facts. The evil tendency of all flesh (our own included) is to misunderstand and to thoughtlessly misrepresent, to think and expect and say, the worst of others on any occasion of stress or annoyance or disagreement. We must have enough sense and maturity to recognize this fleshly tendency in ourselves and others, so that our conclusions and statements about others are godly and not fleshly. Truly, we must not close our eyes to reality. But we must be very careful, especially in bad situations, to be sure we do not make them worse by fleshly or family partiality for or against, by jumping to conclusions, by alarm and exaggeration, and above all, by the dreadful presumptuousness of playing God in judging motives. Truly, many mistakes are made in trying to deal with problems, but if the motive is right and godly, and the goal is the Truth's welfare, then we must have compassion with the human errors of implementation. Our sympathy must be, not with ties of blood, but with those who are struggling to uphold the principles of the Truth and the standards of the ecclesia, even if we feel they err in their methods. Our sympathy must not be with those who by their fleshliness are pulling down these principles and standards and creating the problems for those trying to obey. Closeness of relationship must not color our judgments in matters relating to God and His Truth.

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