Pulling punches because I love you. Is this how you would have me treat my enemies or just all people in general. It is not my job to be up in your business, nor is it my responsibility to sit here and watching you destroy the blessings God gives you and not utter a word. The only power of a disciple when people will not listen to the Gospel is to step away. Just as I would not bash you over the head with shortcomings or my version of how you should live your life, I cannot lend a listening ear to folly forever.

God gave us the opportunity to escape the judgment the entirety of humanity deserved. Yes, in my case every slight, every transgression every step taken away from God was taken by my own volition and perambulation. I walked, I talked, I balked when having been told to work the fields I remained in a lazy state or decided to travel the steps of my own reasoning or desire. Salvation is not something to take lightly. Having been set free from imprisonment, slavery and service to sin, guaranteed death and separation from God forever because of it, I ought not take it lightly when reviewing the nature of my deliverance.

That does not mean that I get to holler at you about your missteps or deliver the recommendations of God in an offhand manner. I am to be gentle and long suffering as His character demands, however, there is a point where we must understand the cost of not listening to advice or seeking wisdom and what we are left with in outcome. I love you, am your friend, Pastor and even deeper than that your Brother in Christ Jesus walking through this life to the time of our entrance to eternity. Perhaps a commitment to act that way now would allow me to encourage rather than correct?

You have been given tremendous gifts, blessings and opportunities regardless of how your attachment to a victimization mentality portrays them. I would venture to claim that the tests, trials and calamities you’ve faced have been a tremendous gift as they are evidence that God is never going to leave you alone to your own destructive intentions. I am sorry you don’t value the attention and you are not in awe that the Sovereign God of the universe has your number and loves you so much He has a plan to ready you for the work before you and the eternity He has prepared for you.

You claim that you want to serve His will. Where is the evidence, the fruits? You claim that you want to good Godly relationships with people who in their Godly nature take things seriously and offer you blessings of growth alongside them. Where is your respect for these blessings in the modification of your mouth, behaviors and songs? You claim that you want to learn and be ready? Where is the practice the intention and the meditation upon the instruction of God? What are you writing upon your heart except the same old evidence and the same old statements that you are right and no one has the authority to change that?

Who is God, and who are you? Consequently who does that answer make me?