Our commenting friend arrives again and says,
“Looking into your heart, I cannot. Hearing your teaching and comparing with the scriptures, I can. I cannot read certain verses in your church because it would offend the ‘watchmen’ over the sheep. In Ezekiel 22 it says that wolves raven for the gain. If I tell the sheep under your ‘care’, that the ‘manna in the pot’ is the same as the ‘corn, oil, and wine in the storehouse’, they may think differently about exchanging the bread of heaven for money. Then you will certainly ‘raven’ as the wolf looking for your dishonest gain that is gone from you.”
Do you see what I mean? This comment proves my point. Though folks have no idea of our lifestyles, they think that our teaching on one particular subject makes us greedy. It simply is not true. They also think that they know how we would respond to their teaching. They do not know. Though they say that they do not know our hearts, they presume to tell us what is there. Only one who is Divine can do that, and Divine they are not.
I cannot but wonder why he has not commented on my post about Your Money And Your Heart. This post shows that I don’t major on extracting money from people, but seek a balance instead. In fact, I’ve not taught tithing at either church that I pastor, but our commenting “friends” think otherwise and accuse me of dishonest gain. I know no one’s heart, but I cannot but can assure you that hypocrisy oozes out of comments such as those above. Such people are incorrigible. Instead of repenting when faced with their sin they simply attack from another angle. God is not impressed well, nor pleased in this sort of behavior.
The people I pastor give willingly without being forced, coerced, or brow-beaten. They love Jesus, and give to glorify Him. I seek to do the same.
Let us remember that we should not be single issue Christians. We should have single heart for the glory of God, but we should seek to glorify God in all things. If we get out of focus on that we become judgmental, proud, and contentious.
“Let all things be done unto edifying.” (1 Cor 14:26) KJV
Just musing…
