Tuesday, September 6, 2011

Murderers

Homicides

 

For there are many religious who, under pretext of seeing better things than those which their superiors command, look back and return to the vomit of their own will. These are homicides and by their bad example cause the loss of many souls.

 

2 Peter2 20

 

20 If they have escaped the corruption of the world by knowing our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and are again entangled in it and overcome, they are worse off at the end than they were at the beginning.

21 It would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than to have known it and then to turn their backs on the sacred command that was passed on to them.

22 Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,”* and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”

 

 

 

 

The word homicides ought to read murderers since a homicide is the death of a man rather than the killer of one.

 

If we get above ourselves when it is thought best we do another thing than is wanted of us, and look back upon our former lives with nostalgia – we may become murderers of those smaller Christians who look to us for example.

 

This is something I seem to understand within me though cannot articulate it. There is a yearning in me to return to places where I was surefooted and knew my way, rather than continue in this way where I know not the way.

 

God calls us away from the comfortable roads we tread be they however rocky and rutted and towards another way that is full of mystery and never will be known even when traversed.

 

Though others look to us for guidance we need not fear to lead them astray for we are not blind guides; the Lord who is the light of the world goes before us. Even though we still do not see the way God guides us to lead them onward, nevertheless be not afraid for he goes with us.

*Proverbs 26:11

As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

 

 

 

 

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