Posted by fh on September 05, 2013 at 05:36:09
In Reply to: Re: Think about it. posted by I wonder on September 03, 2013 at 08:25:26:
Thanks for writing... 'I wonder'.
As you explain your story it is very similar – perhaps more or less identical – to so many, including my own. I am continually being brought to places where I can see more and more clearly the errors and sinfulness of my past, and the later consequences, not only my TF past but also since leaving…all of it. Perhaps the most painful and difficult part is to watch all the little and bigger ways much of this past is manifested in and through my now adult children.
As they so often quote out of context in TF, forgetting those things which are behind (Phil. 3:13), they think they can escape reaping the fruits of their actions, words and beliefs by simply trying to forget about it, thinking God will do the same. Oh no, there is a surely day of reckoning coming, unless we ourselves do that reckoning before that. Like Achan in Joshua 7, full well knowing what he had done, he did not of himself come forward in time and confess while pardon could be found, but delayed until he was exposed by the process, too late for repentance. His sin became worse in time.
After leaving TF years went by, us in ignorance giving little thought to scripture or anything of this nature, in fact nothing. But God has been patient with me/us.
It is one of God’s laws, a law of nature that cannot be broken… as we forgive we will be forgiven, as we judge we will be judged, as we measure it will be measured to us and as we sow so we will reap.