This blog is not dead i have just been devoting more time to my other blog. We have been on a vacation and lost power and we are leaving for Auburn on Friday morning. Pics and narrative to follow.
Rae, I was reading my devotional and immediately thought of you and your situation we were talking about today. You have definately not taken the route I copied and pasted, but hopefully it will be of some encouragement to you....
A profane person is a person who puts more emphasis upon the things of the flesh than he does upon spiritual things. Perhaps there is some brother or some sister in the assembly, and the things of the flesh are taking a great demand on him. You see the things of the flesh, you see materialism griping his heart. You shrug your shoulders and you say, "He is not as interested in spiritual things as he used to be," and that is about all that is done about it.
Be the undershepherd you ought to be. If you cannot go to the dear brother or sister and point out how materialism is getting a grip, how he is going to lose the opportunity for blessing, as Esau lost it, at least you can take it to the Lord in prayer. You have a tremendous ministry as an undershepherd, and if you are a faithful undershepherd you will receive the Crown of Glory which fadeth not away.
It is not easy to be a faithful undershepherd. If you will go back to I Peter, chapter 5, you will notice a few suggestions about it.
Please read 1Peter5:1-5.
I hope you will seek the crown for the undershepherd.
I pray you receive it in this situation you are facing and can holdfast to it. I love you very much and as always still praying!!
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Rae,
I was reading my devotional and immediately thought of you and your situation we were talking about today. You have definately not taken the route I copied and pasted, but hopefully it will be of some encouragement to you....
A profane person is a person who puts more emphasis upon the things of the flesh than he does upon spiritual things. Perhaps there is some brother or some sister in the assembly, and the things of the flesh are taking a great demand on him. You see the things of the flesh, you see materialism griping his heart. You shrug your shoulders and you say, "He is not as interested in spiritual things as he used to be," and that is about all that is done about it.
Be the undershepherd you ought to be. If you cannot go to the dear brother or sister and point out how materialism is getting a grip, how he is going to lose the opportunity for blessing, as Esau lost it, at least you can take it to the Lord in prayer. You have a tremendous ministry as an undershepherd, and if you are a faithful undershepherd you will receive the Crown of Glory which fadeth not away.
It is not easy to be a faithful undershepherd. If you will go back to I Peter, chapter 5, you will notice a few suggestions about it.
Please read 1Peter5:1-5.
I hope you will seek the crown for the undershepherd.
I pray you receive it in this situation you are facing and can holdfast to it. I love you very much and as always still praying!!
Oh...and can you forward some pics of us and you and the girls so I can add them to my blog...Thanks!!
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