"Ponder Your Role"

"Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate." (Psalms 34:21) If you thought that was weird, then check this out! The more I think about it, the more I realize what an importance it is to be connected to a body of Believers: we must be experiencing the assembling together of the Body of Christ; it is what we are, and what we are meant to be; therefore, we must function as One in Christ Jesus. Consider what is being said is much the same as a diagnosis of a problem, say, maybe the reason your so weak and worldly is because your actually apposed to the whole idea of unity, meaning the unity of the Body of Christ. That might sound like a strange diagnosis, but it may be more real than you think. There are two parts to the commandment that Jesus has given us; there might be two separate commands, but they are both the same commandment, which is to love God and to love one another. We cannot have, or do, one without the other! What that actually means (if you are really interested in this subject), is that we cannot say that we love God if we are at odds with a brother and we do not wish to reconcile our differences; it is opposed to God to carry on in such a way, and we are consider to be wicked in doing so. "Wicked" seems like such a harsh and ungodly word; as it should, because it actually means 'to be against God'; which might sound unlikely, if you believe you are a Christian and you believe you are following God; however, there is one little thing that brings us back into captivity, and it's called unforgiveness! Not the subject you wanted to hear about? Well, it's the topic of today; moreover, it's the major cause of fractions in the Body of Christ. That said; reconsidering the previous verse, which spoke of, "He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken", if this might be speaking of the Body of Christ, then what possibly might become of a fracture? Okay, let me divert for a moment, and speak of David, who up to this point had pretty much been on his own; however, after having departed from his close encounter with death, David at this point in his life had actually become king in his own heart. He had been anointed king several years earlier, but up to this point, he had never actually ruled; at least not until at this point of his life; as he gathered to himself hundreds of misfit and desolate warriors, of which he was chief of the desolate and misplaced; having no real home, he made the wilderness his home, and those that banded with him became his army; yet, he always considered himself as one of them. And as for Saul, who David considered to be his enemy, instead of fighting or going against Saul, David did all that he could to respect him as God's anointed...
"Be of the same mind one toward another. Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate. Be not wise in your own conceits. Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men. If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men. Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, bur rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head. Be not overcome with evil, but overcome evil with good." (Romans 12:16-21)