Good kody..how are you?
Thats good but i know mel..that you Pmed me personally..thats why i called on you bout this..and yes..im aware that people have real lives..just seemed that slave in particular was a lot more active on here than he jas since that incident and i know he felt betrayed so thought maybe he still had hurt feelings thats all..
I have compassion for you Jewel. For there is suffering that springs from the wrong temper - "For let none of you suffer ... as a meddler in other men's matters." From talking in the wrong mood springs a suffering so keen, so stinging, so belittling, so hopeless, that it debases and drives the suffering one still lower. I have dropped it - yet here you all go again as a tag team judging me under the false auspices of conversation.
The suffering from being "a meddler in other men's matters," ( a busybody) is humiliating to the last degree. We might translate (1 Thessalonians 4:11) to read: "Study to shut up and mind your own business," and of all the texts on our walls let this be one.
Jewel you came in my pm telling me how you feel about people who don't use their pictures and how you feel about using milk before meat, and assuming my position on it in the thread - and wanted me to answer you about whether Karen is in my picture or not and even showed me the xo's she left as evidence of her affection - you went on to ask this and that as well - and I just wasn't led to share that personal info with you - so I asked "Why do you want to know about my love life?" You went on to simply say I wasn't answering your questions. To that I say - I did answer your question by asking a question you never answered so we could arrive at a kind exchange of informing one another. I was being kind and letting you come to your own awareness of things in way of my relationship with Karen not saying anything that would disrespect Karen... The rest is on this thread and I did nothing wrong except to use your test directly from our pm which said nothing of privacy concerns and only elaborated on what you had already brought up initially in, what to me amounted to a more honest look at your thoughts. I added here what you mentioned in part because it explains where your meddling began at but hasn't ended at.
"Take heed of your spirit," A blameworthy temper of mind is the most damning thing in the human soul. Peter, as a meddler in other men's matters, received a deserved rebuke from Our Lord : "Peter therefore seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do? Jesus said unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou Me."
And surely the rebuke contained in our Lord's answer to Martha is of the same nature - "Martha, Martha, thou art anxious and troubled about many things: but one thing is needful: for Mary hath chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her." ie., "...she is taking her orders from Me."
I am fine in all of this although tempted not to be. I know the wreck of many friendships has started in this mutiny of busybody meddlesomeness. Suffering as a busybody (KJV) and listening to slander ends in pain. This wrong temper slanders the Almighty, and men believe the busybody gossip of the devil and sever friendship with God. Oh, how I have had compassion for those who have allowed satan to produce such damnable pangs by that arch busybody, "the accuser of our brethren."
This the Spirit warns men lest they drink of this spring and endure a suffering that is neither grand nor elevating.
We have both replied with moving on ... Let us do that and lay all of this at His feet shall we? If you continue to talk about it outside of His commission to do so, it will be evident we have not placed it at His feet and we will suffer.
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