Ephesians 4:31-32

Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice. Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.

Paul's instructions to the people of Ephesus. If strangers can do this, how come it's so hard for non-strangers to? I don't understand...the closer you are to someone, the harder it is to love them. It's harder to forgive them, love them, not hold any grudges,.. which doesn't make sense because God forgave me. what the heck

Cry in my heart

There's a cry in my heart
For Your glory to fall
For Your presence to fill up my senses
There's a yearning again
A thirst for discipline
A hunger for things that are deeper

Could You take me beyond?
Could You carry me through?
If I open my heart?
Could I go there with You?
For I've been here before
But I know there's still more
Oh, Lord, I need to know You

For what do I have
If I don't have You, Jesus?
What in this life
Could mean any more?
You are my rock
You are my glory
You are the lifter
Of my head
Lifter of this head

.Starfield.

Philippians 1:3

"I thank my God every time I remember you."

God doesn't want you to be alone. Friendships are a gift from God for you in time of need, comfort, etc.. this verse just reminded me today (along with company of some great people) that you don't need to suffer alone.

"For where two or three come together in my name, there am I with them."

Matthew 18:20

Amen.

Philippians 2:5-8

Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death— even death on a cross!

Kind of odd, how Jesus never boasted in anything. The only thing he "boasted" was that in God, and even with that he didn't really "boast". Lots of the concepts in Christianity is so odd from the world's perspective. To live is to die, and to die is gain...love thy enemy...God sending His only Son to die for sin...so odd! But not bad odd. Good odd. The world scoffs at all this, and yet Jesus still took it and asked God to forgive the scoffers. He was the most purest, as most untouched by sin as you can get, so much that you can't imagine, and he had to bear all that shame. Without even carrying a chip on his shoulder. cccrrraaazzzyyy.