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| .....The saddest thing about betrayal is...-it never comes from your enemies...?!" |
"You will always be attacked in the place of your inheritance," .....I read.
"God has called you to bring people together and to impact other people's lives ....
You must make sure that you seek to maintain righteousness in all of your relationships."
......Those words came from someone who had the wisdom and authority to tell them to me.
I have had a number of close relationships that ended in betrayal.
I am very loyal to my friends and those with whom I have relationships.
Yet there are times that no matter how righteous you are, when someone means to betray you, he/she will do it.....
Loving those who betray you is "graduate-level" Christianity.
-The religious community and one of His closest friends betrayed Jesus.
-Those who were closest to David betrayed him.
-Joseph's own family betrayed him....
Loving our enemies cannot be accomplished by mustering it up.
It can only happen when we have come to a death in ourselves so that Christ can love through us.
It is truly one of those acts of identifying-with-the-cross.
You can be sure God will allow you to experience betrayal...
It is one of those courses in the Kingdom that may not be required until God has seen that you have successfully passed other tests !
It is the most difficult and most gut wrenching of all tests!
A godly response goes against all that is in us.
Our natural response is.....
* To protect, retaliate, and retain un forgiveness and bitterness.
* Satan's most powerful weapon!
To overcome it requires much grace from God.
To ask God to build His nature in you now, -is to be pro-active, so that when such attacks come, you will be aware that it is a test and you will respond in righteousness.....
Shalom .... & Maranatha
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