Thread by @JMacRPN

Please hear this📌

I see this tendency in some believers & it troubles me a lot. You heard that a believer stumbled & your first response is to criticize? How?

A believer who have been laboring in Christ for years suddenly left the faith & all you could think is to vilify? How?

You heard so & so did so & so. And thats when your juices starts flowing to say "Aha! I talk am!" Really? Na who do you this one? What happened to the Holy Spirit in you?

Must you have a say in the matter? Do you have to have a hot take in it? What happened to staying quiet?

What happened to being sober for their sake? If you cared so much what happened to praying for them if perhaps God would grant them light that will lead to repentance?

If you must say something what happened to "Father forgive them for they know not what they do?"

That's a wounded soldier! That's a soldier who just aborted his mission! That's a labourer who just abandoned his wage! Thats a man/woman for whom Christ was broken, bled & died fall from his steadfastness!

And all you could think of was to scoff & to vilify? Really? How?

Repent for you have not so learned Christ. Yes he may be guilty, yes he may be a lawful captive, yes his folly led him there. Granted, yet God devices means that His banished be not expelled completely from Him (2 Sam 14v14). For God is able to make him stand! (Rom 14v4)

Be sober, be vigilant. For we're not ignorant of the devices of the adversary who seeks for whom to destroy. And when he gets one of us, that's not the time to start analyzing & pointing fingers, that's the time to intercede for mercy! That's the time to seek to restore (Gal 6v1)

Leave the judging & the judgement to God. Your obligation is to love, to intercede, to correct in meekness & in love, to seek to restore such one in the spirit of meekness. That's the way of the Spirit, that's the recommendation of Love.

Shalom ❣️