Today’s Thought “Genocidal: Intentional Attempt” G. Ward

Ephesians 4:31

All bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and slander must be removed from you, along with all malice.

 

As many have become so frustrated with terrorist organizations, seemingly without aim and conscience, we must never forget our own behavior of times past, having once embodied a disorder similarly (vv.17-19) and whereas our rationalizations deemed it “righteous indignation,” it was more formatively revealed an arrogant mantra that proposed everyone should do/believe it my way. As believers, we’ve now become responsible unto a desired spiritual transformation that wars with a horrid posture (i.e., the flesh) once acceptable and this new responsibility seeks to imitate our Savior’s correlation in the world: He didn’t link Himself with vitriolic demand(s) of change from governmental improprieties and blatant oversight, and while He was the Chieftain of compassion (cf. Matt.9:35-37), His presence was promised to those who would believe (even after His ascension), guaranteeing an unfortunate reality, that to which plagued Him in earth (oppression and great degradation – John 15:20). We must decide that trust in Him, will more envelop meditation with thanksgiving because inside of me lives a Mighty Conqueror and “I’ve decided to follow Jesus, No Turning Back, No Turning Back!”