sliding into being a human...

Because we have our own unique ministry, and we have received mercy—seeing that we also have hope—we come to you in the plainest of speech, renouncing the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, and in fear of hell: not handling God’s word in deceit.

Nay, but with our open faces beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, and changed into the near image from glory to glory that we may manifest the the truth as witnessed in the conscience of man, and towards the purpose of the common universal God.[2 Corinthians 3, 4]

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Watching black become grey become blue—the implacable, unstoppable slide into being human. As more learned men said, what was intended by God happens with or without our own ordination. His mercy is given where it is given, and we were, each of the faithful, imputed our measure of faith from the first day.

Its a temporal glimmer yielding to futility. But that's very human: us of proudest individual impermanence, or self-defeating humanism—yielding to futility, and that after we are assured so often in the scriptures of our special nature, our special axial placement into nature--

because of the love of God.

Remember: God loves them, too.

God said “every knee”.

Exuent.

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That they may know the rising of the sun, and from the west, there is none besides Me.[Isaiah 45] 

The message and being thankful to God for His love.

...our rejoicing is the testimony of your conscience, that in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom, but by the grace of God, we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly towards you....

-2 Corinthians 1:12

I thank God not only for the gift of the Gospel, the gift of unearned righteousness and the abundance of his Grace, but the mind and heart and means to spread the message, to believe on Christ, that he died and came back three days later.  

Further, the message of God's love, and the imputing that we should love God first.

we persaude...

"we persuade men; but what we are is known to God, and I hope it known also to your conscience."

-2 Corinthians 5:11

Let us all do the work in compassion, with an eye towards helping the needy, and our hearts encompassing the whole brotherhood of mankind.

 

meme: 2 Corinthians 4

 

in the employ of the Lord.

1 Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;

 
2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

-2 Corinthians 4:1-2

What a blessing to be in the employ of the Lord!  There could be no better office manager--not a slave driver or an overlord, but one who loves as befitting a Father, one who knows us, as befitting our Creator.

November 4, 2022

Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life. -2 Corinthians 3

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No one will believe this who has not lived long and looked hard, so that he knows how suddenly a passion for which has for years been wrapped round the whole of the heart will dry up and wither. Perhaps in the soul, as in the soil, those growths that show the brightest colours and put forth the most overpowering smell have not always the deepest root. Or perhaps it’s age that does it. -CS Lewis

Those who serve God must serve him in his own way, and in his strength, or he will never accept their service. That which man doth, unaided by divine strength, God can never own. The mere fruits of the earth he casteth away; he will only reap that corn, the seed of which was sown from heaven, watered by grace, and ripened by the sun of divine love. -Charles Spurgeon

Let me ask you this: Can one demonic person change a nation for the worse? Definitely. Hitler did it in Germany, didn't he?

Then if the devil's power resting on a man can change a nation for the worse, you can be sure that a group of men and women with God's power resting on them can change a nation for the better.  -Kenneth Copeland

When a truth of God is brought home to your soul, never allow it to pass without acting on it internally in your will, not necessarily externally in your physical life. Record it with ink and with blood— work it into your life. The weakest saint who transacts business with Jesus Christ is liberated the second he acts and God’s almighty power is available on his behalf. -Oswald Chambers

Although the LORD may not appear for us in the way we expect, or desire, or suppose, yet He will in some way or other provide for us. It is a great blessing for us to be raised above looking to secondary causes so that we may gaze into the face of the great First Cause. Have we this day grace enough to make trenches into which the divine blessing may flow?  -Charles Spurgeon

If you would see the sun, would you gather together the common means of illumination, and seek in that way to behold the orb of day? No, the wise man knoweth that the sun must reveal itself, and only by its own blaze can that mighty lamp be seen. It is so with Christ. -Charles Spurgeon 

 

we faint not. Forgiveness and Mercy.

Seeing as how the Lord gave us this ministry, we faint not.....

I was just saying and seeing earlier that forgiveness is much more easily said or talked about than really done.  

We are to forgive.

We are forgiven, in turn.

Seeing as how we received mercy, we faint not.....

But if we can't grant forgiveness, can we at least try for mercy?