Monday, September 10, 2012

Knowing others BY THE SPIRIT


Knowing others BY THE SPIRIT truly allows the ministry of reconciliation the opportunity to flourish. Knowing others BY THE SPIRIT allows love to cover a multitude of sins. It also allows others to "forget what lies behind." 

When we regard others for who they WERE yesterday, we may not be knowing them by the Spirit of mercy today. 

When we are remembering what God has intentionally forgotten, we are not knowing others by His Spirit, for the Lord says "I will remember their sins NO MORE." 

Knowing others BY THE SPIRIT means NOT reckoning the evil they may have done to us. 

God was in Christ "NOT RECKONING men's trespasses against them." Knowing others BY THE SPIRIT leads us not to hit the total button too soon. Instead of concluding a matter by the present "facts", the love of the Spirit works in us to "hope all things" and to "leave room for repentance." 

This leads us to know others through the same spirit of grace and hope we have received through Christ's love, rather than by the Spirit of the accuser of the brethren who is very capable of remembering every fault and very willing to repeat it to many people for the purpose of "pointing the finger" at sins rather than covering over them. 

Knowing others BY THE SPIRIT promotes unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace rather than the carnal mind that is decisive through prejudice, insecurity, and strife. 

Knowing others BY THE SPIRIT makes us ONE BODY with diversity rather than many factions with differences 

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