"A PINCH OF SALT" (A WARNING & A CONFESSION)

My friends I beg you to use discernment when engaging with people on this app whether that be on this subreddit or others. Remember this place is full of people who do not care about Christ or in the gospels who can and will infiltrate Christian Subreddits to cause stumbling and chaos within your lives.

When anyone says anything to you (including myself) always pray to the holy spirit for discernment, PLEASE! Don't just take things people say at face value. Check them against scripture and then check the scripture against itself.

Nobody you meet on here will have all the right answers but if the things they are saying run contrary to scripture or WORSE if they are arguing using scripture in a way that is ;

1. Justifying or normalizing sin.

2. Minimizing Gods sovereign authority.

3. Contrary to the Gospel message.

4. Sowing discord or doubt.

Then know full well who it is that you are dealing with!

And to all of you devils lurking in hearts of those who use this subreddit, hiding just out of view from most people.

CHRIST SEES YOU and I do too!

Wolves in sheep's clothing trying to keep those still struggling from recognizing the fullness of freedom in Christ. WOLVES AND LIARS who masquerade behind a "love" they define by their own standard so as not to have to be born again into the truth of Christs perfect love. Afraid to admit they are sinners needing of salvation and instead make excuses for sin so as to not have to be transformed at all.

There are many mystery's to life and to Christ but there are things that are very clear in the bible. Crystal clear in fact and we have to come to terms with them and not move the goal posts just because we don't want to agree with them.

I am sinner.

I still struggle with the sin of lust. It haunts me almost daily like a shadow darkening my soul. I wish desperately that the lord would just take it from me, that everyday I live would be the day that I am free from such evil but here I am and so I must struggle against the nature of my flesh and the desires to which it wants me to walk in. That is my cross to bare and sometimes I slip and it falls to the ground and Satan says " See ! you don't really believe, If you believed you truly would never slip again" but that's not the truth is it ?

It is by faith that when I slip, I pick the cross back up and continue.

It is by faith that when I fail, I believe in the grace of my lord Jesus Christ.

It is by faith that I admit all of this to you all know even though this is my greatest weakness.

I share the suffering you all feel including those of you who haven't gotten to the place where I am now in my walk and who still find new ways to identify themselves with sin. I lament that it is so but I know that even in that place God still loves you because he did me and I honestly, I feel like I am lowest of anyone in this subreddit. Like Paul I persecuted Christians, Like Thomas I doubted the Truth, Like Peter I have denied Christ and much like Judas every time I sin, I know I betray him and his love..... and I hate it....

and sometimes I even hate myself for not baring more fruit, for not being more righteous, for not being cleaner, for not being more honest, for not knowing how to help people more effectively.... For failing to live up to the standard of my lord Jesus Christ.

I have no faith in myself...

But I do have faith him....

He is my righteousness. He is my peace. He is my strength. He is my life.

Please my friends let us agree on that. Let us agree that what he says is true and that what scripture teaches is good. Let us not allow evil to be defined as good. Let us not entertain anyone who would convince us otherwise.

Ask the holy spirit for discernment. Pray for clarity when helping people out on here or when discussing things with brothers and sisters and for the love of God be kind to each other with a pinch of salt.