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Originally Posted by Unregistered
What needs to happen for Ruth and those like her is that they need to be heard by their brothers and sisters. She is still under great oppression from the enemy through the actions of the leading ones in The Lord’s Recovery. It is a present, ongoing experience, not just a past one. She has also realized that there are many like her who have suffered in the same way, and she feels burdened to speak up not only for herself but for them.
True, everlasting peace cannot be had until this situation is remedied and until the Lord returns. He can be our peace, in a sense, like Paul experienced, but we must not ignore the fact that in his humanity Paul more often than not was suffering and experienced great sorrow.The joy of the Lord shone through in his experiences, but those negative experiences were consistent and intense. So great was it that Paul declared that he would prefer to go with the Lord rather than stay on the earth and suffer. The only reason he endeavored in this life was for the sake of the next generation of saints.
Ruth is offloading 30 years of suffering that she has held inside of her soul. It’s going to be quite a process.
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What Ruth, and those like her need, is to hear and follow the voice of the Lord. We suffered for years listening to men tell us what to do, what to say, and who to say it to. The result was, in order to stay out of trouble, we had to learn how to follow the men “over us” instead of listening to the voice of our good shepherd.
Of course we need to be heard. But I/we learned early that in the Local Church leadership,
no one is listening. Many have tried to “fellowship with the brothers”. The result is we are branded as “negative” and are forever shunned and talked about behind our backs. When we finally “left the church” we got criticized for that too.
As we all are, we are posting on this forum to speak for ourselves and not continue to be told what to do. Perhaps the greatest need of all believers is to hear His voice in our lives and follow Him.
John 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
Nell