Good morning to you all, this morning I am going to speak on ‘MY’ personal feelings that I have been confronted with recently.
I must admit, I do not like social media, I’m on social media, I have two (2) Facebook accounts, I post my lessons on thirteen (13) different sites found online, but I frown at friendships that are based solely on words that are typed, using our thumbs.
At one point in my life, I had a very successful Bible study I held on Facebook LIVE every week. I had people joining in from nearly every state in our country. I enjoyed the confrontation, even if it was via a computer screen, I still felt that it didn’t involve using just my thumbs to communicate.
Well one day, I was confronted by an individual (it just so happened it was from a person that I was related to), this person disagreed with my message.
I’ve never been and in some way, I probably am still that way today, except today I have learned I can simply walk away … I don’t need to get into a long drawn out verbal argument over what I consider to be right or wrong.
Well just within the past month, once again I found myself in another disagreement with another group.
I found where there was this group, that I have recently been taught to name them the ‘alphabet crowd,’ mostly because it seems every other week another letter is included in their name (LGBTQ+ and whatever else), I am from this point on, simply going to call them the ‘alphabet crowd.’
I was confronted by text why I didn’t accept them or I didn’t respect them. I have no problem with this group or any group, if what they believe in, is how they desire to live their life, it is their life … it isn’t for me to judge, but, if that is what they want, so be it.
I made the comment to them; did they respect me or accept me because I disagreed with them? They in turn replied that I had to accept them … and I have to ask the question: where is that written anywhere?
The reason I don’t like social media is mostly because of me, in the past I was never able to just walk away and forget about it. The other day, when this person told me I needed to respect their choice, I simply closed my laptop, and the confrontation was finished.
But I still remain with this unanswered question, why does it take my acknowledgement of their actions and in their minds, they are then justified to continue with their lives, living it the way they want to?
I don’t accept that behavior, never have and never will … I can move on, but these individuals are lost because they cannot be recognized by us and what they are doing.
I simply do not understand what they are looking for.
If a person is doing something, anything and you need recognition from someone else that what you are doing is okay … you must yourself not fully agree that what you are doing is right?
Why do you need me to tell you whether it’s okay or not okay?
It’s never going to happen; I am never going to agree with what you are doing to yourself … why can’t you see that?
I read my Bible … I believe in God … I know that one day I am going to be in heaven, in the presence of Jesus Christ … I don’t need your approval on whether or not that is true.
I don’t require your respect so that I will know my promise is true.
I know it’s true because God told me it was true in His Word.
This morning is going to be a short word. I have found pastors on Facebook that I have become friends with, and yes, most times I am only able to communicate with them using my thumbs.
I wish I lived in a different state or there church was in my state that I live in, but they are not.
I live in the Bible belt but most of the churches around me have never opened a Bible when I visit them.
God gave me His Word for me to READ and to study. I trust the words that God has given me more than I trust some other human being standing behind a podium preaching some word their denomination is promoting for the month.
The strongest relationship that anyone of us can have is our relationship with Jesus Christ.
We strengthen that relationship by reading His Word and finding out what He wants for us to know.
Pick up your Bible and open it and read of the LOVE that He has for each one of us.
I love ALL of y’all.
I am InHIM.><)))o>
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