Drink Your Vinegar

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To rejoice at my brother's hardships is completely contrary to the love nature of God.  i pray for his restoration, Abba Father.  In Jesus's name.  Amen  i don't rejoice when i hear bad news about anybody.  After all, it could've been me.  i was sad when i heard about the death of somebody who proved to be nothing but grief to me when we lived in the same house together.  That was the real test!  i felt no joy or that vengeance was mine.  Vengeance is not mine, it belongs only to the Lord.  YAH has touched me with His Holy Spirit so that egotism and jealousy appears somewhere and with someone else.  i'm happy for someone who achieves what i wanted to before i ever do because i know that YAH has something better in store for me.  i declare this by faith in Jesus' name.  Amen

But am i entitled to develop agape love if i can?  Ay, there's the rub!  If i can't honestly state what i think or want, then i won't say or do anything!  i don't wish to have any second or hidden agenda.  i am no longer easily provoked.  It's too tiring!  i know of someone who's always trying to provoke me with her phony yappity-yap full of crap flapping her lips while talking through her a**   Then the contention became so sharp that they parted from one another. And so Barnabas took Mark and sailed to Cyprus -[Acts 15:39]  May my contentions never be as sharp as that!  Paul and Barnabas parted ways and put an end to their ministry together.  That's sad.

Agape love doesn't behave in this fashion.  i suppose it's best if anything is to be said in such a spirit of contention to just tell somebody to drink your vinegar.  There should be no cause for ugly or violent responses.  i have no intention of becoming a bookkeeper who keeps tabs on every offence done to me.  Agape love doesn't keep account.  This is not the way love behaves.  i know for a fact that i have been guilty of this.  i have to start looking at how You look at me, Heavenly Father.

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