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Philippians 2:14 says >
"Do all things without complaining and disputing,"
This is in the New Testament. Jesus does not want us to complain or argue. And I note how there is a comma at the end of this commandment > and then what do we have?
"that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation,"
So, if we do what this means > how God has us stopping our arguing and complaining > we can become blameless and harmless and without fault . . . right "in the midst of" this evil and horrible world > not later "after we die", but now. Because this is possible with God, plus God commands this. So God knows this is realistic to expect of us, since it is possible with Him.
If we stop our arguing and complaining, we can become real in God's own love, instead. After all, Jesus in His love is blameless and harmless and without fault . . . right? So, I see a connection here, how arguing and complaining are *anti*-love, and as we therefore stop what is anti-love, with God we become His way and even pleasing Him like Jesus His own Son is so pleasing to Him and we discover how He has us relating in love. So, thank You, O God our Father ! ! !
We are wise to actively seek this correction by God, then . . . as Hebrews 12:4-14 encourages us to do - - - so we can discover how His holiness really is, in His love.
But today I was listening to a TV preacher and he was making a list of what he considered to be major sin problems in the United States. There is that list, right? There is that list which political activists have been giving such attention, fighting what all those wrong people are doing, indeed. But he did not mention arguing and complaining, even though this is clearly forbidden in the New Testament, and stopping these wrong things can result in us becoming like Jesus and loving like Jesus.
And I see how arguing and complaining in a marriage can hurt children. The bad example of fussing and fighting between parents can help to keep children from finding out how to relate in a close relationship. And the children can see that their dysfunctional parents are claiming the Bible, even, and maybe doing their one-day-a-week church thing, and what they are doing is not working. And so the children can be desperate for attention and affection and go to peers in order to find love, but their peers are as blind and hapless as they are so they together get into drugs and pleasure seeking of various sexual sensations and food abuse and seeking excitement. And now we can see the products of once-a-week church culture, and ones so criticizing the *product* instead of dealing with the arguing and complaining at home, which helped to produce all we see now.
But, even all along, we have had the obedient church of Jesus. The obedient have used prayer and good example to reach personally to people. And this has been working . . . all along. Thank You, God. So, let us do and keep doing what God guarantees will work > among other scriptures we can feed on these >
"nor as being lords over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock." (1 Peter 5:3)
"Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, 'I will never leave you not forsake you.'" (Hebrews 13:5)
"'In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.'" (Genesis 22:18)
"Do all things without complaining and disputing,"
This is in the New Testament. Jesus does not want us to complain or argue. And I note how there is a comma at the end of this commandment > and then what do we have?
"that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation,"
So, if we do what this means > how God has us stopping our arguing and complaining > we can become blameless and harmless and without fault . . . right "in the midst of" this evil and horrible world > not later "after we die", but now. Because this is possible with God, plus God commands this. So God knows this is realistic to expect of us, since it is possible with Him.
If we stop our arguing and complaining, we can become real in God's own love, instead. After all, Jesus in His love is blameless and harmless and without fault . . . right? So, I see a connection here, how arguing and complaining are *anti*-love, and as we therefore stop what is anti-love, with God we become His way and even pleasing Him like Jesus His own Son is so pleasing to Him and we discover how He has us relating in love. So, thank You, O God our Father ! ! !
We are wise to actively seek this correction by God, then . . . as Hebrews 12:4-14 encourages us to do - - - so we can discover how His holiness really is, in His love.
But today I was listening to a TV preacher and he was making a list of what he considered to be major sin problems in the United States. There is that list, right? There is that list which political activists have been giving such attention, fighting what all those wrong people are doing, indeed. But he did not mention arguing and complaining, even though this is clearly forbidden in the New Testament, and stopping these wrong things can result in us becoming like Jesus and loving like Jesus.
And I see how arguing and complaining in a marriage can hurt children. The bad example of fussing and fighting between parents can help to keep children from finding out how to relate in a close relationship. And the children can see that their dysfunctional parents are claiming the Bible, even, and maybe doing their one-day-a-week church thing, and what they are doing is not working. And so the children can be desperate for attention and affection and go to peers in order to find love, but their peers are as blind and hapless as they are so they together get into drugs and pleasure seeking of various sexual sensations and food abuse and seeking excitement. And now we can see the products of once-a-week church culture, and ones so criticizing the *product* instead of dealing with the arguing and complaining at home, which helped to produce all we see now.
But, even all along, we have had the obedient church of Jesus. The obedient have used prayer and good example to reach personally to people. And this has been working . . . all along. Thank You, God. So, let us do and keep doing what God guarantees will work > among other scriptures we can feed on these >
"nor as being lords over those entrusted to you, but being examples to the flock." (1 Peter 5:3)
"Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, 'I will never leave you not forsake you.'" (Hebrews 13:5)
"'In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice.'" (Genesis 22:18)
