ExodusMagMay2020

L A S T W O R D
REJECTING
PAIN
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But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, kindness, goodness,
faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against
such there is no law. And those who are
Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its
passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit,
let us also walk in the Spirit. – Galatians
5:22-25
Pain is a response to the desires of the flesh. It gives
birth to anger, envy, deceit, jealousy, strife, pride and
hatred. Guard your heart for out of it flows matters of
life. But God has promised that if we lay all unto Him,
the peace of God which surpasses all understanding
shall guard our hearts. How can in one heart be the
dwelling and outpouring of the Holy Spirit, as well as a
house of pain. How can joy and anger flow from one
space. How can peace, envy and jealousy flow from
one space. How can kindness and hatred flow from
one space.
Unforgiveness is a child birthed by a painful
experience designed to eat up one's life like a plague.
It is a silent disease that manifests itself as the fruit of
the flesh. Who are we not to forgive others when we
continue to sin while Christ carried all our sins.
When the Father forgave and washed us with the
blood and does daily. We have all sinned and fallen
short of the glory of God. Only Christ was found to be
without fault. Unforgiveness is judging others and
self-exaltation. 777 times shall one forgive his
brother. Col 3:22-23 Therefore, as the elect of God,
holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness,
humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one
another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a
complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you,
so you also must do. There is no room to carry a
grudge in the word of God. It only instructs us to
forgive. Why carry wounds when Jesus took 39 of
them so we would need not to, but instead be healed
of everything. Carrying wounds is like rejecting the
healing already given to us by Christ.
Pain is to be rejected for Christ has already made a
mockery of it on the cross. Let it not make a mockery
of you instead. Christ endured it all that we may be
free from it all. He carried the cross and bore it all so
that we do not have to bear anything, but through Him
conquer it all. If we fail to forgive and let go of pain
and resentment, we are ignorantly giving birth to the
bitterness of soul which will eat us up slowly as cancer
eating through the bone
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