CONFRONT WITH KINDNESS

II Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be diligent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.  4:1 I charge you therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;   (KJ2000 - sent from CadreBible)

It is quite natural, and even spiritual to feel some sort of heaviness when we see a professing Christian following the ways of the world.  And our 1st impulse is to go straighten them out like a hot comb...in the mighty name of our LORD.

Such methods are seldom successful, selah. I THANK TOZER FOR THESE WORDS(slightly modified by me)

Usually such methods don't B3ARFRUIT is because the heat of our spirit is not from the Holy Spirit. I have only once felt the righteous indignation of God fall upon me prodding me to respond, and I did. It was the most interesting feeling, which I will not go into much detail on, but it reminded me of Pentecost. It pushes you forward and restrains you simultaneously. Most interestingly enough was the outcome, because I had previously GONE OFF on people before in an "spiritual" way and as Tozer notes "it can very well do more harm than good." Well this time it ended up quite well, I found out the other person was a believer and they were focused to rethink their own actions. Now back to Tozer As in everything, Christ is our perfect example and a prayerful face-down meditation on the life of Christ will show us how to oppose with KINDNESS and reprove with CHARITY. The power of the Holy Spirit will enable us to follow His blessed example. The baptism of the Holy Spirit will ALWAYS bring a spirit of LOVE...and....SWEETNESS and CHARITY. (The action of love)

NOTCHES

I am sure you have seen it.

Young ladies who seem to be sleeping around with everyone, looking for the affection they never got from their real daddies.  Not sure exactly what the connection is with sexual relationships and fatherly love, but that is what plays out many times. 

Have you also noticed a flipside to this sad situation?

Imagine Jay-Z's "give it to me" playing a a get together and a little baby girl no older than 4 is doing her little baby dance, you know that dance with the rhythmic squating action.  Right as the part goes "when the remy's in the system, ain't no telling will I _____ them or diss them" starts there is a grown man with money in his mouth on his knees moving his head like a snake to the rhythm in from of the cute little girl.  Awwww....right?

"Gimmie that funk that sweet that nasty that gushy stuff"

What if that man was the girl's father?

I don't know why this happened in my dream, but all I can remember was that I was the man and I was asking myself why would I be doing this with my daughter? (Which I don't have)

However these are the kinds of things we do to our young ladies and daughters and I don't see the wisdom in it.  TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY THEY SHOULD GO, not in the way they should hoe.  I just feel that many don't take the time to consider the psychological impact on their children because they don't see how it effects them.  I only ask that you pray and seek God's wisdom.