Acceptance

ACCEPTANCE

A drunk man staggered into this church
Then timidly He sat down inside of a pew
He looked so afraid with his hat in hand
(Some 'snooty' looks, he got quite a few)

To him, God sent out a convicting spirit
That convicted a man to the altar now ran
He prayed asking God for His forgiveness
Then He stood up a Forgiven, Sober Man.
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Do you rejoice when that, one who's wrong
Comes in repentance, praying to God above
Each 'blood-washed’ belongs to God alone
We are to accept them In pure Holy Love

If you did not feel love in what you think
Nay, why it does not matter, one little bit
If our gracious Father has accepted him
I ask you;” Just who are you?” Think on it

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Matthew 3:7

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to where he was baptizing, he said to them: "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?”

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Lessons of life

You take your daughter visiting with you to a neighbor s house. They have two children and you have one (who insists on taking her own toys to show them off).

It is like trying to teach a little child of your own. How to do something like share, which seems so unfair.

To the child who has the full bag of candy, or takes many toys along on a visit and she screams, "They hate my toys. They will ruin them!"she cries.

If another child even touches one of her toys, especially if that child is delighting in that toy, the owner of the box of toys is ready to box up all of the toys and go home.

Knowing none of these nasty children should even be permitted to even 'look', let along 'touch' one of her precious items, for they are all hers, given to her.

She wants to show them how much fun it is for her to play. They are to only watch and they are to enjoy just sitting there and watching her have her fun until she is ready to leave. Instead of all playing together and enjoying all of the things they are attempting to do.
Knowing it does not want all of it, but hating to part with the smallest crumb of it, to another. So filled with jealousy, believing they don’t deserve any, because it is hers. And just who are they anyhow? They are hers, only they are nothing to her.

Children have to be taught to share, even old children of God


Lord

Please help me to always have a heart filled with sharing love. To know if I part with some, it only comes back ten times greater. This is a hard matter for a child to understand, for this stinginess, will go on into adulthood with them, if not nipped in the bud. Help me to be a 'bud nipper' Lord; show to me any unclean way and cleanse it for me.