Sometimes
I don't know who I am. I know this sounds
strange, let me explain. I began a new job April 2016. I work in a space that is very close-nit, meaning,
tight space. I've always been a child of God. Those I work
with are not. They curse like there's no other suitable words in the
dictionary to choose from. I tolerate it and say anything. So who am I? I literally
went to the bathroom and looked myself in the mirror and asked that question. I know the scriptures. But at work, I busily do my job and
smile. I never address their fowl mouth. I had to ask myself, WHO AM I?
I didn't recognize me. Are you sometimes guilty of acting a certain way around some and not others? If so, we have the Peter syndrome. He was a Jew mingling with Gentiles. There was nothing wrong with that. God told him not to call what he created unclean (Acts 10:15). Yet, Peter acted one way with his religious Jewish brothers and another way with his Gentile brothers. First, how can you be in a clique and a Christian? Anyway, the Gentiles had become Christians but didn't fully observe the Jewish laws as Peter was raise. Listen to the scripture: Galatians 2:12, "But when Peter was come to Antioch, I (Paul) withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. For before that certain came from James (James told on Peter) he did eat with the Gentiles; but when they (Jews) come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them (the Jews) which were of the circumcision. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him (played the hypocrite); insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation (caught up in it). But when I (Paul) saw that they walked (lived) not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel I said unto Peter (Paul talking) before them all, if you being a Jew, lives after the manner of Gentiles and not as a Jews, why force the Gentiles to live like a Jews? Do you see where this is going on? Peter was as in some circles call it two-faced; a hypocrite. If we know about evil, we need to address it. Whether the surrounding change or not, we need to say something as lovingly as possible and leave the rest in God's hand. I'm working on that. What about you?
I didn't recognize me. Are you sometimes guilty of acting a certain way around some and not others? If so, we have the Peter syndrome. He was a Jew mingling with Gentiles. There was nothing wrong with that. God told him not to call what he created unclean (Acts 10:15). Yet, Peter acted one way with his religious Jewish brothers and another way with his Gentile brothers. First, how can you be in a clique and a Christian? Anyway, the Gentiles had become Christians but didn't fully observe the Jewish laws as Peter was raise. Listen to the scripture: Galatians 2:12, "But when Peter was come to Antioch, I (Paul) withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. For before that certain came from James (James told on Peter) he did eat with the Gentiles; but when they (Jews) come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them (the Jews) which were of the circumcision. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him (played the hypocrite); insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation (caught up in it). But when I (Paul) saw that they walked (lived) not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel I said unto Peter (Paul talking) before them all, if you being a Jew, lives after the manner of Gentiles and not as a Jews, why force the Gentiles to live like a Jews? Do you see where this is going on? Peter was as in some circles call it two-faced; a hypocrite. If we know about evil, we need to address it. Whether the surrounding change or not, we need to say something as lovingly as possible and leave the rest in God's hand. I'm working on that. What about you?
Comments