I also know that the Heavenly Father will use whomever He elects to fulfill His plan, any church claims notwithstanding. He did elect a farm animal to stop that preacher for hire from going about his daily business.(I use to work with and for lawyers and that legal language in part has stuck with me.)
I agree that it is love for the Heavenly Father, that created all souls, who is not a respecter of persons does get demonstrated in how we live our earthly journey. On this thread I am not reading a love of the Creator, I am reading a complete worship of a man and his appointed position in this earthly realm.
It is as if we have entered that period wherein the analogy of the sting of the scorpion has made flesh minds and spines mush.
Mrs Just...I apologize for the gender error...to assume gets us into trouble. I had a boss one time who taught me the meaning by breaking the word down into three parts...
We who are commoners are not so common these days...everyone seems to want to be what they are not, and consider ‘common’ beneath them. I am reminded of a story, told as being true, about Queen Victoria. She would travel into the countryside and visit among the common people. One of those common people, a lady, talked to her heighbors endlessly about how important the Lord was to her. So on a particular day, Queen Victoria came to the villiage and picked this lady’s house. She knocked, was invited in, and was served tea by the lady. After the Queen left, the neighbors asked the lady who was the most important person she had ever entertained in her home. She answered, ‘The Queen, of course!’...the neighbors said, ‘Ah Ha, we have you now, she is more important to you that the Lord you keep telling us about.’ The lady, responded, ‘Oh, but He is not a visitor, He lives here!’ That is my idea of being in the world, but not of it.
There are many Baalam’s out there today, ready to curse God, His Creation, His followers. We have horses here at our place who have more sense than these Baalam’s. The Lord has this to say to Pergamos, “But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there them that hold the doctrine of Balaam, who taught Balac to cast a stumblingblock before the children of Israel, to eat things sacrificed unto idols, and to commit fornication. So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate. Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.” (Revelation 2:14-16 KJV)
The sword of His mouth will smite the scorpion and will provide an antidote to the sting for those who repent.
As I read through this thread, it was indeed true that ‘love’ was absent. I was led to quote from Paul’s words in 1 Corinthians 13 to bring ‘love’ into the discussion.
Again, thank you for your words, last night and now.