From politics to our personal relationships — and politics in our personal relationships — slights, insults, arguments and offenses can trigger easily. And then you have grudges, the doomsday freeze-dried food you carry everywhere, chew incessantly and store forever. The only hope lies in one simple fact…they are disposable.
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14 replies on “Grudges: The Doomsday Freeze-Dried Food You Carry Everywhere, Chew Incessantly, Store Forever”
does anyone know what the rest of Zo’s shirt says? Masking Truth….?
Never mind the question. I found the shirt on Zo’s other website. Masking Truth, Injecting Lies.
This was a great conversation! It was frank, honest, open, full of insights, and valuable not only for its content, but also as an example of how to treat each other. Thanks, guys.
Loyalty goes two ways. If your family expects you to be loyal to them and put up with all of their crazy or perverted ways, then they have to be loyal to you, and either reduce the number of times they poke you or tone down behaviors around you, or whatever would be appropriate for the situation.
The Revolutionary war put families against each other as well, choosing king or country, or choosing the ruler instead of the rules, to live under.
You have given me much to ponder with this one. I also have been holding some grudges, also mainly due to my own lack of pointing out the behavior that angered me.
This will require some thought and time in the word.
THANK YOU
I’m the same way. Takes a lot to really tick me off. When someone does, though, yeah.
I hear ya guys. Most people don’t know when to cut the ties even when the crabs are trying to pull them back into the bucket because it’s hard. But sometimes, if you want to live a full life you must get out. Just because you’ve known someone your whole life doesn’t mean you have to except them and their lifestyle or way of looking at the world.
You also can’t blame somebody for “stepping on your toes” when you “identify” your toes as being the ENTIRE FLOOR (as the Leftists do, who are professional “offended” people).
While repentance is necessary, it’s not sufficient. Many think that merely “repenting” ensures their salvation. This is just another prideful way of trying to be your own savior, (i.e., idol worship). Step 2 is to trust in King Jesus’ substitutionary death on the cross for FULL payment for your ENTIRE sin debt. Failure to take step 2 is a first class ticket to Hell (whether you believe in it or not). Failure to trust in Jesus’ blood FULLY is a rejection of God. (Hmm. How many people who are burning in Hell right now “identify” as being in Heaven. Hint: The answer is a nice round number. In fact, it’s the roundest number there is.)
John Calvin’s number, in his “Institutes of the Christian Religion,” was six. He scoured the Scriptures and identified only six people who he believed were (Scripturally) consigned to hell — Judas, Pharoah, (and I can’t remember the other four). What’s your number?
Since John Calvin has no more theological standing than you or me, I really don’t care what “number” he’s conjured up. All I can tell you is what God has told anybody who wants to honestly read His Word. If you are depending on Jesus’ death as the entirety of your basis for entering Heaven, you’ll be there. Anybody who thinks they can earn any fraction of their salvation won’t be. I have no idea what that number is, but Jesus said, ““Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and there are many who enter through it. For the gate is narrow and the way is constricted that leads to life, and there are few who find it.” (Mat 7:13-14 NASB) He also tells us Who that narrow way is. “Jesus said to him, ‘I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father except through Me.'” (Jn 14:6 NASB) He said He’s THE way, not A way; THE Truth, not A truth; THE Life, not A life. He also never said He’s PART of the way. Returning to your “numbers” question, all we know for sure is what Jesus told us, which is that the number of people who WON’T be in Hell are “few.” Calvin must have missed that, but then, he missed a LOT of things.
I didn’t completely understand the final sentence of your original post, which is why I offered Calvin’s “number.” My original thought was that there are MANY round numbers (meaning not fractional) and I wondered which of those numbers you meant. Thanks for the clarification. And agreed, Calvin wasn’t perfect in all his thinking.
The roundest number there is, is “0” (zero). 🙂
I don’t understand how you get “few” in hell when the quotation you gave us clearly says that MANY are on the road to destruction and the way to life is narrow, and not the other way around.
As for works, you shall know a tree by its fruit and Acts 26:20: ‘prove your repentance by your deeds.’ There are many more, but to put it simply, Sola Fide is an error and protestants should try to get over that hump.
You interpreted what I said PRECISELY the opposite of what I said. The FEW will be in Heaven.
Ah, I see. For a moment it sounded as if you were saying hell would have few people in it, which is what I hear sometimes.