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We are one another's servant, yes, dear Char (peace to you!). That is the PURPOSE of the Body of Christ: to serve CHRIST... in many ways... including serving one another. I get it that we live in a time and day where folks are more concerned with BEING served, having THEIR wants and desires met and fulfilled... rather than serving others... starting with God's household and then their own. More of a "me, my, mine, I" kind of world these days.
The Body of Christ, however, should not be like that. True, we don't all start OFF understanding that JAH is a God of SERVICE... One who WANTS to serve HIS people and DOES/WILL... which is another reason why He sent His Son to LEAD such ones, and teach THEM to serve one another:
"If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you should do (to one another) as I have done to you. Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them."
And so that One IS leading us... subduing us, in fact, and teaching us PEACE... HIS peace... first with JAH, then with him, then with one another ("by THIS all will know you are my disciples, if you have LOVE... AMONG yourselves), then with our neighbor, strangers... and even our enemies.
I have seen that love... the fruit of JAH's holy spirit... grow in dear tec (peace, luv!)... and many others... over the years, particularly as manifest in how she deals with you (unlike me, who just doesn't have the patience - if I wanted to deal with children ALL the time I would have been a kindergarten teacher). In contrast, YOUR continued snarky comments to her and others (as to me, I don't really care - I mean, I don't have a PROBLEM dealing with children, per SE; I am a mom, after all)... only serve to indicate to ME that YOUR "fruit" is of another "tree."
As to your fruit, though, here's the thing: I am once again going to KINDLY ask you to KINDLY stick to the TOPIC which, here, was giving praise to JAH. Don't want to comment on that? No worries. But, IF not, then please... refrain. Keep your snark for threads that call for it. THIS one absolutely did NOT.
This will truly be my LAST time asking you, dear Char. Since my repeated requests in our recent PM exchanges seem to be lost on you... I am now asking you publicly. It has grown quite old and I have grown quite tired of it. It's unnecessary... immature... and doesn't lend itself to the purpose of this thread... nor this site.
Please... stop.
YOUR servant and a slave of Christ,
Shellama
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