Dorothy Mae
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The recipient determines if something is done in love. I do not in the least feel loved by your words so you are only fooling yourself.Anyone who has ever made a "To Do List" knows that they are trying to set things in order. Anytime somebody made registry of names on a book is setting in order those people. For surely, if names were written on a piece of paper and hidden throughout the United States, it would not neatly set in order the names of those who attended. Anytime we made a list of anything in life, we are trying to create order out of chaos. This is why lists are about setting things into order. It can be about grouping things together based on a pattern or be numbering or counting of certain things.
"Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:" (Ecclesiastes 7:27).
"As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the wilderness of Sinai." (Numbers 1:19).
"But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered." (Luke 12:7).
"But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying,"
"Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?" (Job 31:4).
"And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs." (Ecclesiastes 12:9).
"For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:" (Isaiah 28:10).
"Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me." (Psalms 119:133).
"Forasmuch as many have taken in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which are most surely believed among us," (Luke 1:1).
"It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus," (Luke 1:3).
"So I do not run like one who runs aimlessly or box like one beating the air." (1 Corinthians 9:26) (CSB).
"That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered." (Ecclesiastes 1:15).
"Let all things be done decently and in order." (1 Corinthians 14:40).
If something is set out of order it is chaos and confusion. However...
"...God is not the author of confusion,..." (1 Corinthians 14:33).
Many today in the church do not want order, but they want their own chaotic ways. They will at times reject basic knowledge to promote disorder or their own path or ways over the order of God. This is one of the reasons why God says,
"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge...." (Hosea 4:6).
I say this all in love and with the hope that you may see where I am coming from. If not, then by all means...
carry on as you were and God will set things in order in their due time.
Anyways, peace, and love to you today in the Lord
(Even if we disagree strongly on Scripture).
I ask again, do give those you are in relationship a list of your expectations in order to maintain relationship with you? Do you ask them for their list do you know what you are to do to maintain that relationship? Have you give God a list of your expectations?
The problem is you do not understand that love doesn’t give lists. There are expectations if there is to be a relationship at all but it’s not in a sterile loveless list.
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