Jehovah's Witnesses Straight Talk - Forum/Blog

1Cor.4:1 So let a man think of us as Christ's servants, and stewards of God's mysteries. 4:2 Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful. 4:3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you, or by man's judgment. Yes, I don't judge my own self. 4:4 For I know nothing against myself. Yet I am not justified by this, but he who judges me is the Lord. 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

All of us see now with a hazy outline of the things to come, but when we are made like him, Christ Jesus, we will see clearly. There are two worlds, our world of this life in the sinful flesh, and the world of God and Christ whom lives are without sin. So there is a vast chasm existing between us and them, light and darkness. So we are trying to learn a new language, but they are not trying to learn our language of our the fallen flesh.

1Cor.13:12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known. 13:13 But now faith, hope, and love remain--these three. The greatest of these is love.

We have an outline of truths found in God's word the bible from this can come extremes in our thinking where we impute what it might be like to live in a world without the pain and sin compared to where we live now, but many of our thoughts may be wrong assumptions?

My next door neighbors have known each other for years, they have been retired for years, but I work everyday and some time seven days a week if need be. As much as we care for one another we really don't speak the same language when it comes to time. They literally waste time filling up their day with visiting with others for hours, they never seem to be in any hurry. People can just drop in unexpectedly, and they will sit and talk for hours.

I don't have that luxury in my life, my life is dictated too by how much energy I can store up to get things done. When I do get a day off living alone I find myself cleaning, doing yard work, taking care of my work van, and number of other chores I must do to go back to work for the coming week.

My neighbor try to understand, but their world and mine are much different I know its hurts their feelings at times because I just can't come over and stay up half the night talking. Simply, put they are not living in my life or they would completely get it, and I am not living their life or I would think differently as well. Here we are talking about two completely different worlds, where God dwells, and where we live now none of us are yet living in the new world too come, so no matter how much truth we think we might have, we will think differently when we shed the sinful flesh, our entire view of life and the realty of God will explode into peace and security changing our views of them, our own time tables will change, our needs will changes, and our thinking will changes.

For the bible to tell us that there is no evil with God, and for us to live in life and thought, it is impossible. It is only when we live in something that it become truth in us, otherwise it is an intellectual thought, an idea, this is the reason Christ lives in God's anointed, so it becomes a way of life a part of us, a language we are being translated into day to day, This is why we have a taste of the coming life in heaven, so we can hope and endure, because we only see in a hazy outline at present, our own life blocks much of what is truth in the next life, a truth which is life, not an intellectual truth, but the truth of a body functioning in complete harmony with each other, all having the same will, all having one mind, the mind of Christ.

The WTS has this presumptuous spirit of imputing evil to others the presumptuousness comes from a superior attitude of thinking, they know what God is thinking. I remember people judging David thoughts and actions, and other prophets of the bible, and thought in my mind and heart if David were here you would be ashamed of such speech and evil thoughts. Who are you to judge God's servants? It much like my neighbors misjudgment me because I must stay on schedule or lose my income and customers.

We have a society that judges some one guilty or not guilty by how they look on TV, on circumstantial evidence, something they have no material fact about, but what someone speculates about for good entertainment on TV.

This harsh and rancorous spirit stirs up over hearsay is not good for Christian's to feed into. I think we should all remember, we have been gives some truth at present, but there much we don't know, let us remain humble and continue in love, hope and faith. We are all removed thousand's of years from the facts of the people recorded in our bibles, our worlds and their are not the same, when people can't understand completely their next door neighbors life, how could we imagine we have all the truth to make complete truthful judgments about people that live thousand's of years ago in a community none of us have live in?

It may be entertaining to imputes our feelings into them, but it may not be truth or even fair at times. Let us treat others how we want to be treated.
Let us also understand as hard as it may be, God is a God of the living and not the dead.