SCRIP-BITS

Ephesians 4: 31-32.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice. And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God, for Christ’s sake, hath forgiven you.

You know life can be so simple that it just boggles my imagination the way we screw it up. As the above scripture says, we should put away all the negative things, and be decent with each other. Forgive each other as God has forgiven us. But you know, the selfish, greedy, ignorant fools that we are, we expect God to forgive us as soon as we run to him and beg for forgiveness, but let one of our fellow men do us something, hn, they can beg forever and we won’t relent. Let’s change that nuh people. Let’s see if we can come up just a little higher, let’s see if we can put a small smile on J.C’s face, because, after all he went through for us, I’m sure it breaks his heart every time we mistreat each other. How ungrateful we must seem to him. Just remember people; it’s all about LOVE.

Luke 22: 31-32.

Zechariah 8: 16-17.

These are the things that ye shall do: Speak ye every man truth to his neighbour; execute the judgement of truth and peace in your gates.

And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the Lord.

He could not have put it any plainer and simpler than this. Truth and Love People!

Isaiah 58: 10-11.

Isaiah 45:19 & 21 -22.

…. I the Lord speak righteousness; I declare things that are right. …. And there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour, there is none beside me. Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.

O what a powerful and just God we have. There is none like him, so let’s worship and praise him the way he deserves.

Psalm 119: 132-135.

Look thou upon me, and be merciful unto me, as thou usest to do unto those that love thy name. Order my steps in thy word: and let not any iniquity have dominion over me. Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts. Make thy face to shine upon thy servant; and teach me thy statutes.

Not much to say about this (and don’t chuckle, I am trying to be short and sweet) Just asking for some mercy and guidance to walk in his way. Hope we all get it. Love.

Micah 7: 6.

For the son dishonoureth the father, the daughter riseth up against her mother, the daughter in law against her mother in law; a man’s enemies are the men of his own house.

Matthew 10: 36.

And a man’s foes shall be they of his own household.

 How sad eh…Micah said it hundreds of years before J.C, and two thousand years after Jesus reiterated it. Sadly, it’s still true today. The ones who hurt us the most are the ones closest to us. Why is that eh? You would expect it to be the other way around, but unfortunately in a lot of cases it’s the stranger who extends a helping hand to us, while our family breaks us down. Can we do something to change that, so two thousand years from now it would no longer be true?

Song of Solomon 8 : 6-7.

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is as strong as death: jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love it would utterly be contemned.

As Isaac Hayes says in his rap on the song ‘By the time I get to Phoenix’ … "Talking bout the power of LOVE!"

John 13: 34 – 35.

A new commandment I give to you; That you love one another, as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

It is such a simple philosophy…Love one another. Yet we screw it up all the time. J.C. did not want us to go around spouting scripture and such stuff all the time while treating one another like garbage. How much clearer could he be. He says I am Love, so if you live in love, then everybody will obviously know that you are one of my followers. But this love thing seems so hard for us to do. While the hate and animosity part comes so easily. Just look at the world today. There’s more ill will than anything else out there. Don’t worry if I come on strong about this because it’s one of my pet peeves. I find it so much easier to live decently with people than the other way around. Perhaps my mind is just too small to comprehend it, but I’m glad if that’s the case, because I can’t stand all the nonsense, the senseless death and destruction that’s prevalent today. Help me here people. Let’s try and live in love! It’s so much easier and much more stimulating to the soul. LOVE PEOPLE…LOVE!