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It isn't the wrong things I have done as a Christian for
things just happen. The things that bother me is the times I used my energies
to plan and execute things that were wrong.
I must give a tip of the hat to everyone who has never been
guilty of doing this and say congrats for their uprightness. This wrong stuff
comes in so many forms from verbally causing pain to the extreme, whereby you
physically harm someone.
I have said things I shouldn't have said sixty years ago that
I still remember and I wish I could take back but to no avail. Being remorseful or saying I'm sorry isn't a
remedy for harm done by speaking harshly but it's all we have.
2 Corinthians 5:10 For
we must all of us appear before Christ's judgment seat in our true characters,
in order that each may then receive an award for his actions in this life, in
accordance with what he has done, whether it be good or whether it be
worthless.
Ephesians 6:8 because
you know that the Lord will reward everyone for whatever good he does, whether
he is slave or free.
Colossians 4:5-6 Be
wise in the way you act with those who are not believers. Use your time in the
best way you can. When you talk, you should always be kind and wise. Then you
will be able to answer everyone in the way you should.
Job 27:4 My lips will
not speak wickedness, and my tongue will utter no deceit.
Romans 12:17 Do not
repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of
everybody.
These and hundreds more scriptures admonish us to walk
uprightly before all men, for Christians this is an imperative but is easily
forgotten in the heat of battle.
The crux of this is set forth in clear terms in; Luke 12:48 But someone who does not know,
and then does something wrong, will be punished only lightly. When someone has
been given much, much will be required in return; and when someone has been
entrusted with much, even more will be required.
Let’s face it we are debtors to righteous living for we have
been given it all.
These thoughts are for the purpose of "Personal
character adjustment” which I need from time to time!"
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