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Originally Posted by countmeworthy
...shame on the LCrs for calling you shallow, dark and vain... I would not have questioned the thinking of their oracle but rather splashed them with Fresh Living Water.
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Well, it was good medicine for me. It helped me to realize that not everyone thought I was such a swell guy. And even more, it made me realize that yes, words can hurt. So maybe, just maybe, my words were also hurtful to others, and I should try to tone down my rhetoric.
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. Jesus is not only the Word of Life, the Bread of Life, the Water of Life, He is the embodiment of Love. God is LOVE. I sometimes think we forget this Truth.
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Yes. Like the political candidates are told over and over by their advisors: "Stay on the message." Our message is Jesus Christ, not some doctrine to wrangle and accuse each other over.
God loved us so much that He sent His Only Begotten Son (Jo 3:16); should we not also love one another? I have to remind myself of this again and again. If the other person doesn't "feel the love" then my message is vain.
I know in a lot of WL's Psalms footnotes I didn't feel the love, but rather dry and empty rhetoric. I should not likewise get snared into dispensing the tree of knowledge.