Making a Friend ~ Being a Friend ~ Engaging a Friend …

Romans 12:19-21 ~ Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord. ?On the contrary: If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head. “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”?

Abba Father good morning ~ Anger, bitterness, resentment, revenge. Powerful words reflecting unhealthy feelings if left to fester within our heart, our mind, our soul. Feelings destroying lives of real people living real life festering into bitter hatred if not extremely careful. Everyone has been a recipient and instigator of anger. It’s the action of taking revenge; that festering anger causing barriers of unhealthy separation. Intentionally or unintentionally slowly becoming embedded into the lives of those affected. Revenge is intentionally taking-action or attempting to control a situation with personal gratification becoming focus-of-motive. Revenge always destroying with hurtful brokenness. Inflicting destruction to marriages, separations within families, destroying friendships, restricting relationships, instilling bitterness within life. Slowly consuming everyday life to a point of isolation. Allowing this seed of anger to grow deep roots within our inner-core of thriving life. We miss the real treasures of everlasting life thriving abundantly within everyday life. All of life is precious treasures intended to draw our life intimately closer to The Lord Our God. One must slow down to engage what the ways of this world is missing. As we push aside. Reject. Ignore treasures of life. We cause unhealthy barriers of separation between our life and The Lord Our God; Our Living God actively loving all of life personally, unconditionally, intimately. This conflicting separation: this unhealthy lifestyle will bring extreme darkness with despair while penetrating hopelessness into everyday life. Remember ~ The ways of this world justifies anger, bitterness, resentment, revenge. Motivations intended to intimidate, influence, control will actually-destroy our way of life. This life The Lord Our God intended for our life to intimately love will become infested within unhealthy motives. Tolerating the ways of this world will expose our life to the power of separation. How are we handling our feelings of anger, bitterness, resentment, revenge? Where do we turn at moments of rage? Who justifies our actions? What feeds our feelings at moments of outrage? The living bible teaches about reaching out nonjudgmentally; engaging within living hope, agape love, sacrificial forgiveness. Reaching out with tolerance even when it hurts deeply within our heart, our mind, our soul. Reading the living bible, holding it within our hands, embracing this living truth; our heart, our mind, our soul. The very inner-most-core of our thriving life will be transformed from the ways of this world to the ways of The Lord Our God. We learn to overcome moments of rage with intimate prayer, personal reflection, heavenly wisdom: instilling calmness into moments of outrage. We will remember it is better to make a friend than be an enemy. Extending unifying love rather than divisional anger. Willingly embracing the living bible; The Lord Our God’s holy word will plant seeds of undeniable truthfulness. Godliness coming actively alive deep within our heart, our mind, our soul intimately spouting all the Fruit of the Spirit: Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, Self-control. The same Fruit of the Spirit Our Lord Christ Jesus sacrificially extends to our life personally at all moments of sinfulness. Our Lord Christ Jesus personal life taught the whole world the greatest example of agape love; sacrificing his very life on an old wooden cross. Intimately praying to God the Father and seeking life-changing forgiveness for all the outrage of anger inflicted on his innocent sacrificial life. Even within distress Our Lord Christ Jesus was purposefully loving the unloved, forgiving the unforgiven, engaging the brokenhearted. Intentionally reaching out into the anger of this world with free-gifts of life-changing undeserved grace. Anointed heavenly gifts absolutely un-earnable, un-purchasable, un-creatable, and the ways of this world can never provide. Free-gifts of The Lord Our God’s powerful cleansing, redeeming, restorational undeserved grace intimately breathing everlasting life (Holy Spirit) into life’s brokenness (our sinfulness) within anointed sustainable life (Christ Jesus) within everlasting life in heaven (Abba Father) releasing all anger, bitterness, resentment, revenge. Free-gifts our life can engage within every moment of life’s brokenness. ?Heavenly gifts thriving abundantly within living hope, agape love, sacrificial forgiveness, everlasting life in heaven. Remember ~ Undeserved grace is engageable. Life-changing within a life of living faith. Godly faith willingly living believing, accepting, trusting, following within God the Father ~ God the Son ~ God the Holy Spirit. What is actively living deep within our heart, our mind, our soul; our very inner-core of thriving life. The life we actively live will be the utmost difference in making a friend or becoming ?an enemy. We have a choice, a decision, a way of life to choose. Revenge or forgiveness is a way of life. Revenge destroys within bitterness. Forgiveness unifies within agape love. How are we purposefully living: Worldly or Heavenly?

Father ~ Thank you for being my friend. Purposefully engaging my life in the darkness of my sinfulness. Abba Father ~ Help my life intimately live within all the Fruit of the Spirit: Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, Self-control. Protectively engage all my life. Intimately teaching my life how to live within life-changing undeserved grace. Free-gifts purposefully cleansing, redeeming, restoring my sinfulness. Help my life live within agape love of forgiveness. Leading my life within heavenly promises. Protectively engaging my life thriving abundantly within you God the Father ~ God the Son ~ God the Holy Spirit.

Michael J Zenner