Offenses or Love

 

(given to and shared under inspiration of Ha Ruach Kodesh)

 

 

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Act 24:16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward Elohim, and toward men.

 Shalom.

 

What a deep profession.   Is this something I exercise?  Is this something we ought to always do?  I believe so.  I have been meditating lately about offence.   I was reading this passage:

 

Mat 18:6 But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Mat 18:7 Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!

How can we offend one of YHWH's little ones? 

 

Jam 3:2 For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body.

Is it possible to bridle the whole body?  I believe so, its the difference between walking in the flesh, and walking in the spirit.  Its in acting versus re-acting. In saying that which YHWH would reveal to us through His Spirit, instead of spouting off that which our flesh wants to say.

 

1Jo 3:18 My little children, let us not love in word, neither in tongue; but in deed and in truth.

 

I am deeply convicted that love is missing badly in the body of Ha Moshiach.  How many have you witnessed laying down their lives for their brethren?  Now, how many times do we see the laying down of the lives of our brethren as we offend them in word and deed?  I think its a good study to find out how we offend one another, and then to seek forgiveness and remove offenses from our lives.  Should I have offended any of you, I seek your forgiveness!  May you have a blessed day, and even more blessed as we all seek out ways to lay down OUR lives for our brethren.  Always remember that:

 

Pro 18:19 A brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city: and their contentions are like the bars of a castle.

Pro 18:21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof

Pro 18:24 A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother.

May this week be a blessed new week of restoration!