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But when we began to talk about God working in our life, they were blown away because they had never heard such testimonies before, and I realized that what we have is priceless. I just want to say that having to depend on God daily to survive, is not such a bad thing. Because when you have nothing else, He is everything. Jesus recognized that we will have enemies on this earth. There will be those who curse you, hate you, and mistreat you.
We are to love them, and that is difficult. Now to clarify, I do not believe that we can love our enemies as much as we love our nearest and dearest family, or spouse. To do that would be unnatural, impossible, and maybe even wrong. But we can see to it that, no matter what a someone does to us, that we will seek nothing but their good, and that is all that we can hope for. Also it is wrong to think Jesus meant that evil should never be resisted.
Jesus demonstrated with His own life that evil must be resisted at times, such as when He turned over the tables of the money changers in the temple. This is trusting that even if we lose what we have, God has plenty more and He will take care of us. Until Jesus, the rule had always been negative like: I have also found in my life, that what goes around, comes around. We reap what we sow. If you sow butter beans, later you will get a harvest of butter beans.
I have given away computers and got stacks of computers given back to me. The same thing that I planted, came back multiplied. This seems to work in all realms, give and it will be given back to you. Judge not, and you will not be judged. Condemn not, and you will not be condemned. Gossip about someone else, and you will soon be gossiped about. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
For even sinners love those who love them. For even sinners do the same. Even sinners lend to sinners, to receive back as much. This is contrary to the very nature of the world, but in doing this, we imitate the nature of God who shows love towards His enemies, and is kind to the unthankful, and even the evil. Also never view kindness as weakness.
I think Al Capone said it best when he said: I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weakness is not what you are going to remember about me.
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Set free, and you will be set free. We could say that Jesus did not prohibit us from judging others. He only requires that our judgment be completely fair, and that we only judge others by a standard we would also like to be judged by, because we will be. Too often we are hypocrites and condemn others while excusing ourselves for the same thing, but He will not allow this. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you. He will always return more to you, in one way or another, than you give to Him.
When you plant seed, it comes back multiplied. Something that we should make note of, is that it also works with love, blessing, and forgiveness as well.
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To put it simply, the blind cannot lead the blind. Jesus said this to remind us that some leaders are blind, and that we should beware of them. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into a ditch. Jesus gave a wonderful promise here. As we are taught by Him and grow in Him, we will become more like Him, and ultimately, when He is revealed, we shall be like Him 1 John 3: Jesus used humor here, and as a carpenter, had never seen a person with a plank, or a beam in their eye. Trees are known by the fruit that they bear, and people are known by what comes out of them, be it good or evil.
Here Jesus makes a distinction between those who hear His sayings, and those who do them.
The things that we have covered in this chapter. When a flood arose, the stream broke against that house, and could not shake it, because it was founded on the rock.
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That person is like the man who built his house on the rock. Both of the men built a house from the ground up, and they seemed to have a lot in common. The only difference was obedience.
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He joins the army and serves several postings in Northern Ireland, ending as an increasingly maverick intelligence officer. In the end he is caught by the IRA, tortured and executed. Jennings never makes the direct comparison with fishing, but there is the suggestion that one day Nairac's luck ran out and he was hooked and wound in by his adversaries.
Tom Fort's Against the Flow: Jennings may be quasi-philosophical, but this is a travel book, a comparison of two fishing trips to eastern Europe, one in , the second 18 years later. As he wanders across the former Soviet bloc, Fort is increasingly dismayed by the "progress" which has transformed peasant communities into tourism-driven, materialist economies. For example, in the Polish skiing resort of Zakopane, we hear from his fishing companion: Even the sheep are only there for the tourists.
The water, which I remembered as clear with a peaty, amber tinge, was now murky and sluggish. Some aspects of life have improved — the rampant pollution of Bohemia's brown coalfields has been cut dramatically — but overall he finds the picture depressing: When I mentioned an expression of mild regret at the passing of the scythes, the carts and the peace, Grigore answer[ed]. There is a disquieting distance between Fort and his guides, quite unlike Jennings's bonds with his two childhood role models.
Perhaps it is fishing's solitary nature, but Fort seems unable to connect.