“Arrogance leads to nothing but strife, but wisdom is gained by those who take advice.” (Pro 13:10 HCSB)
The popular scripture “Submit to God, resist the Devil, and he will flee.” (Jam 4:7) Is a scripture that can be applied literally as well as spiritually. The Apostle James wrote this when Jewish and Roman oppositions were strong in Jerusalem after the Resurrection of Christ. He was the presiding Apostle in Jerusalem. Another look at this, is when David, the armor bear of the King Saul was fleeing for his life. After Saul became jealous of God’s gift of honoring David in the victory over Goliath. Saul purposed to rid David completely off the face of this Earth. There are several points in his time of flight that were extremely noteworthy about David. The first was that he had the skill and the anointing of fighting back and possibly prevailing, but he never did. David submitted and took the matters to Samuel for his wisdom and direction. David submitted to Abiathar for the priests provision, blessing, and reception of Goliaths sword: a token of his past victories. David even submitted to Sauls son, Johnathan’s directions to avail over the malice that his father had in mind. Of the which David never laid a hand on Saul in all his time of madness. But it was God who used David’s kindness to be a witness to Saul in hopes “heaping the coals on his head” and salvaging the once anointed King’s heart in regards for the Lord.
“…So then, we must pursue what promotes peace and what builds up one another.” (Rom 14:19 HCSB)
The Epistle unto Philemon is a great example of this “pursuing what promotes peace.” The Lord opens up the opportunity for Paul to build up with an unprofitable servant of a certain employer/slave master. He became a Father to him. While he was in the midst of apprenticing another anointed young man, Timothy. The fellow worker, Philemon, was totally in-differed by the actions of his slave Onesiumus and it was Paul who took him in and began to build him up in the Lord that brought a total reformation in their relationship. Not only did Paul use the opportunity to restore the young man. But in the depths of his compassion to his master sought fit to add, “if there be any tabs owed on his account let it be on me.” Paul took total responsibility in his fallacies and his quickening even much so the fruit that all three could be accounted for by the Lords benevolence.
“…A patient person shows great understanding, but a quick-tempered one promotes foolishness.” (Pro 14:29 HCSB)
Women were not regarded highly during the New Testament times. Though in the Old Testament heroes like Jochebed, Ruth, Esther, Deborah, Rahab, and Jael were easily testified. When the woman with the Alabaster box appeared to anoint Christ’s feet, she discerned his death was soon at hand, she broke precious oil on his feet, weeped, and wiped the tears from her eyes with her hair. The undiscerning disciples, called by God, could not even discern the woman’s actions. They rebuked her and even chided came about what she could have done with the trade of it. Jesus’s patiently took his time, gained an understanding of the a Woman’s revelation, and replied – “Leave her alone, what she has done unto me is a good thing.” (Matt 26:10 Para) What would happened if they turned away a woman with such revelation for good? She would have never received such a great blessing, in the sight of men, as she did.
“Truly I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of in memory of her.” (Matthew 26:13 NASB)
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