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Wednesday 18th August 2010
Prov 18:21
Death and life [are] in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
First Plumb-Line comments:
Words are powerful things. The way we speak to each other can, and does, have a powerful effect upon people. With our words we can inspire, lift up and encourage. With our words we can cast down, disparage and condemn.
In the UK a paedeatrician was hounded and attacked because people misunderstood that a Paediatrician was not a Paedophile, but rather a doctor who treats children. Word gets round and soon the mob takes over.
How we counsel others needs great wisdom and compassion. Recently a brother in Christ, who was struggling in a particular area was told (in no certain terms) that he had forfeited salvation and that God was no longer with him. For months this brother was assailed by condemnation, doubts and despair. Ultimately this brother took his own life having been convinced that God had abandoned him and that he was now belonging to Satan!
One of the last people to speak with him was Miguel who spent two hours talking to him trying to encourage him against what had been said to him by his "Christian" counsellors.
The inquest into his death is still to be held, after which the body will be released for burial.
Words cannot properly convey our feelings at this time as we are still in some shock. Questions arise in our minds as to what his counsellors had been thinking to minister such condemnation into his mind. How easily faith can be undermind when we place our confidence in men and not in the Lord who made heaven and Earth.
Who is the judge that decides on the destiny of the souls of men, especially those who are confessing believers?
For our brother he has gone to face the Lord's judgement, his destiny is in God's hands.
for those that councelled him, we pray that they will see the damage that insensitive and unwise counsel can cause.
For ourselves, we pray that we do not let our feelings of anger cause us to sin and we do not allow any roots of bitterness take hold.
God help us all.
In the UK a paedeatrician was hounded and attacked because people misunderstood that a Paediatrician was not a Paedophile, but rather a doctor who treats children. Word gets round and soon the mob takes over.
How we counsel others needs great wisdom and compassion. Recently a brother in Christ, who was struggling in a particular area was told (in no certain terms) that he had forfeited salvation and that God was no longer with him. For months this brother was assailed by condemnation, doubts and despair. Ultimately this brother took his own life having been convinced that God had abandoned him and that he was now belonging to Satan!
One of the last people to speak with him was Miguel who spent two hours talking to him trying to encourage him against what had been said to him by his "Christian" counsellors.
The inquest into his death is still to be held, after which the body will be released for burial.
Words cannot properly convey our feelings at this time as we are still in some shock. Questions arise in our minds as to what his counsellors had been thinking to minister such condemnation into his mind. How easily faith can be undermind when we place our confidence in men and not in the Lord who made heaven and Earth.
Who is the judge that decides on the destiny of the souls of men, especially those who are confessing believers?
For our brother he has gone to face the Lord's judgement, his destiny is in God's hands.
for those that councelled him, we pray that they will see the damage that insensitive and unwise counsel can cause.
For ourselves, we pray that we do not let our feelings of anger cause us to sin and we do not allow any roots of bitterness take hold.
God help us all.
