Okay...and I speak from some of my own experiences on this, so...we're not supposed to hold grudges.{"Be angry, but don't let the sun go down on your anger".]BUT I'm not talking about those exact circumstances.I'm talking about dealing with someone who causes you "problems.", and in order to preserve your own peace in life, you have to make a decision" to put some distance between yourself and them.Even job related. Like, there were a few I had to block their numbers to "save myself" from the problems they created.Most recent,someone who was here illegaly, and didn't have a credit card, and so couldn't call uber,so when she needed me,I may have had other commitments, and because of her "helplessness",would present a problem that the others wouldn't present. Then, she would get job assignments where she would get off on a Sunday, which is my only day off, and I had to take her. On top of all that, she started to borrow money from me, and she would not pay back, and even kept borrowing. So my point, when she wouldn't listen to reason,I had to wind up blocking her number. And when she tried to weasel back{also, doesn't take no for an answer}I was like,I wish her no harm,just, you go your way and I'll go mine.But my point, that's a little different than holding a grudge, where you don't bother with someone because of ill will. I could give other examples, like, a mother finding out a neighbor is a child molester, and not letting him near her young daughter. Isn't that different than holding a grudge?If we do something as a decision to better our situation, and stick to it, I don't see how that's not allowed, and think it's different than avoiding someone because you're "mad at them" through a personal dislike.Think so?
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Holding grudges vs.being practical
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Steven Bobb
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That's what I explained in the blog.If you're doing it for practical reasons,your intent is different than someone just doing it because they "have it in for someone."God knows the heart and the situation.
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I hire people who attend church and are homeless or lost their job.
I hire people who attend church and are homeless or lost their job.
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Brother James
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No offence but have you not read the book of Job? God not only sent the enemy to Job but He also claimed to have been the One that did all the things to Job that the enemy did. Believe it God is the One that is in control of everything.
kbehrent
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Job was "released" into the hands/control of satan, but satan was limited to what satan could do to Job, by God. So yes, God can control what satan can do and get away with. God does not control what goes on between a man and the demonic/ satan, except to limit the interaction with boundaries beyond which neither man nor satan can go.
Brother James
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God is in control of everything. I suggest you re read the book of job. The devil was pointed to Job, told what he could and couldn't do to Job etc.
kbehrent
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If God is in control of everything, then what I am saying and thinking is what God is controlling me to say and think.? And, if God is in control of everything then He is controlling what you are saying and thinking.? God must be disagreeing with Himself?
Brother James
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The book of Hosea is another example of how God controls us. I know it sounds crazy but we can't totally figure everything out on our own and some of us are not able to because God hasn't shown us or revealed to us. Really though, no worries & no offence. The things we do have been prepared, pre planned for us yet it does seem as if we do on our own yet roads get closed and our ways are blocked from us and we have to take detours etc.
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