I had a couple of conversations yesterday that reminded of a situation I had to deal with a few years (decades??) back. To this day I am not convinced that a pastor I served under was not threatened by me. Now I say this in a kind manner because maybe he just had bad people skills or thought I was not someone to get to know but he always seemed to forget things like my studies whenever he talked to me. It felt like he did not want to get to know me because I might question him. His successor was a totally different person and was quite supportive of what I was studying even though he had not studied at the same depth and loved, to a certain extent, me questioning him. I supported them both as well as I could.
I realise that over time some people think you are after their job when you tell them the truth of your hopes and dreams. Some CEOs or leaders feel threatened when you say things like “One days I’d like to run a company a bit like this one.” This does not mean you want their job but want something like their job. You may see it as a different place or a different time. They think you want it yesterday.
Other people go, well lets see what develops, lets get to know you, develop you and see where we can have you work best while you are with us. They know that God is involved in placing people in the right place at the right tme and they have no permanent claim on you.
I am not going to talk about the motives of the people around you or me and why they do things but I will ask a couple of questions. If you were in their shoes would you be promoting you or threatened by you? If so how can you make things better?
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July 17, 2008 at 5:11 pm
cornishevangelist
Woven.
Christianity is woven throughout our entire nation, being the very fabric that makes up these islands. It keeps the judgement of God from falling on us that is why we have been preserved from the many wars that have buffeted our shores.
We need never feel that the darkness that comes upon us is permanent, for the light of Christ will always prevail by dispersing it with his glory. We need not be troubled by wicked people, for our God is surely dealing with them. I am amazed when I see Christianity in all our great institutions, I cannot begin to speak of all our workforce, builders, lawyers, nurses, miners, factory workers, who make our nation so great and confess Christ Jesus as Lord, Well, the list is never ending, where God’s people can be found, Christianity is literally everywhere. It cannot and will not ever be removed from these islands.
Do not listen to doom prophets, when you hear them say things for example, like the abortion issue, they say, “surely this will bring God’s wrath upon us all, for that wicked thing that people do to our unborn children.” Well, God’s judgement will fall on them that commit such horrific killings, but I assure you, the righteous will not be included in God’s judgement.
We remember how God’s mercy is shown to us in Genesis 18:24-26, I quote,
“Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked that be far from thee: Shall not the judge of all the earth do right? And the Lord said, if I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.”
You can see from this scripture that God will surely spare our nation, because there are more than fifty righteous Christians living here. Now Jesus has told us that this world is inhabited by the children of the kingdom and the children of the wicked, and that He will not bring final judgement on the wicked until the end of the world, because He will not destroy the wicked while the righteous are here.
At the end of the world Jesus said in St Matthew 13: 41, – 43, “The Son of man shall send forth His angels, and they shall gather out of His kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.”And so, that is how we can be confident that God will not let us be overwhelmed by these recent troubles that we face in our nation. Praise God, for every born-again believer that God has placed in our lands.
EVANGELIST BILLY BOLITHO
http://www.evangelistbillybolitho.blogspot.com