Author Darlene J Conard

For twenty minutes or so I sat in front of the computer screen. The Holy Ghost began speaking to me about something.

Years ago, someone commented on what I wrote saying, “It’s always about you. You need to change the way you write.” I assumed that since one person thought that, so did everyone else. So, I changed it questioning, “Well, I guess its me and not God. I completely took myself out of the picture. Others began sending messages saying I was targeting them. Frustration interfered so I quit. At the time I did not realize people came before God.

Jesus warned us in the Bible that offences would come. Nowadays every little thing offends people. People get offended if you are nice to them. Once I posted a cat wearing a t-shirt in a t-shirt. I had to remove it from the group about cats: according to them it was cruelty.

People get offended if you disagree with them. Some find our moral values offensive. Well, here is what I have to say about that. I am going to please the Lord. This world has turned into one chaotic mess, because everyone is supposed to straddle the fence.

Unfortunately, if we do not straddle the fence then we are haters and full of discrimination.

I am not talking about hurting people out of hate and in the name of justice. That is not edifying anyone. The Lord tells us to pray for one another. Stand up for truth but to do it in love.

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” Isaiah 5:20 KJV

These days God’s love looks like hate, and hate looks like love.

“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!” Matthew 18:7 KJV

We must weigh things in balance. We can’t use the word of God in an offensive manner, it’s not going to show the love of Jesus.

My message is to pray and seek God and asked Him to guide you on how to answer and to help you not react offensively that is not contrary. I am praying for myself as well.

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