I am convinced that God is a loving God who loves me, and loves you, very much. I am also convinced this loving God does not make me or anybody else a perfect, peaceful, fearless, powerful being, who is always right and does everything with conviction...yet I still believe.
As humans, no matter how loving we may strive to be, or how loving we ultimately may be, it is difficult for us to not want to judge others, particularly those who somehow make us feel inferior.
However; We simply cannot raise ourselves high enough to see what we would need to see to be able to judge with accuracy. In this regard, I believe it was the divine in Jesus that harshly criticized the pharisees and selfrighteous, not the human in Him.
It seems to me to be very wrong for us humans to judge how the Holy Spirit works through another human.
For example. I have a friend who dresses up as a witch on Halloween, and instead of candy, she distributes those religious tracts with photos of burning buildings and words about judgement day on them to the little kids who visit her house to "trick or treat".
I thought this was just awful and I asked her why, and she said she was doing what Jesus wants her to do. Those kids may never hear of Jesus in any other way.
I said what about Love? Tell them about Love first.
She said it was all about Love. Jesus loves us so much he died for all of our sins. Belief in him gives us eternal life in the kingdom of God. When scary things happen, like Sept 11., and they see people jumping out of burning buildings..they may know Jesus is always with them, they may believe in Him"
I said ..uhmm, ok...
I dont know much, but I do know this friend of mine is a wonderfully kind person and absolutely convinced of her purpose and how the Holy Spirit works through her. She told me once she didnt like to be the one always bringing up the scary stuff, but it is a part of the bible too.
I am not convinced that she does not have a point. :o)
Peace
Keren
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