Comments on: Meditation http://online.worldmag.com/2008/02/16/meditation-11/ A forum for discussion of news that arises at the intersection of Christianity and culture. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:52:47 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: KI http://online.worldmag.com/2008/02/16/meditation-11/comment-page-1/#comment-274542 KI Sat, 16 Feb 2008 13:42:29 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2008/02/16/meditation-11/#comment-274542 We are to be light and salt to that world. We are all spiritually blind before Christ gives us sight. Even after our eyes are opened we see so dimmly. How easy it is for our own feet to slip into sin! This scripture points to a reality that is important for Christ's disciples to keep before them. We are told not to be surprised at persecution, but to expect it. Nevertheless, we are to pray for those who persecute us or do evil to us. That persecution comes in both very subtle and overt ways. It is not easy to love your enemies. It is God himself who will give us strength to do it. That is one reason prayer for ourselves and for each other is so important. We are to be light and salt to that world. We are all spiritually blind before Christ gives us sight. Even after our eyes are opened we see so dimmly. How easy it is for our own feet to slip into sin! This scripture points to a reality that is important for Christ’s disciples to keep before them. We are told not to be surprised at persecution, but to expect it. Nevertheless, we are to pray for those who persecute us or do evil to us. That persecution comes in both very subtle and overt ways. It is not easy to love your enemies. It is God himself who will give us strength to do it. That is one reason prayer for ourselves and for each other is so important.

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]]> By: Justus331 http://online.worldmag.com/2008/02/16/meditation-11/comment-page-1/#comment-274524 Justus331 Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:26:17 +0000 http://www.worldontheweb.com/2008/02/16/meditation-11/#comment-274524 Thus has Satan blinded those who will not believe. There is an early U2 song (I threw a brick through a window) with the lyric: No one. No one is blinder than he who will not see! It's a matter of those who refuse to believe. They are spiritually and emotionally weak. Satan has even caused them to think he does not exist. They consider God to be opposed to science. What a crock. That's really no way to live....... Thus has Satan blinded those who will not believe. There is an early U2 song (I threw a brick through a window) with the lyric: No one. No one is blinder than he who will not see!
It’s a matter of those who refuse to believe. They are spiritually and emotionally weak. Satan has even caused them to think he does not exist.
They consider God to be opposed to science. What a crock. That’s really no way to live…….

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