WORD TO PONDER:  BUILD BRIDGES, NOT WALLS  11/15/07

Beloved, in a world of many languages, many cultures and many mindsets, your life is bound to come face to face with people who do not understand the language you speak, or your terms of reference.  I delight in using unusual methods of speech, because when it is quickened, it fits the unusual circumstances of people’s lives and then lives on again to touch another in a different way.  Be willing to stretch your box to contain more of Me and understand that My world is spiritual, in another dimension, superimposed on top of the world you live in.

Precious ones all over the earth are hungry for Me.  The world is growing smaller, as technology and media crosses cultural boundaries.  Simply learn to be more aware that language references can be barriers and stumbling blocks.  If you are educated to see a potential glitch that can cause someone to fall, simply point it out and help people to understand exactly what you are referring to.  This walk in loving humility, will eventually build bridges and not walls.  Red and yellow, black and white, all are precious in My sight.

Gen 11:6-9 NKJV

And the LORD said, "Indeed the people are one and they all have one language, and this is what they begin to do; now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them. Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech." So the LORD scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth, and they ceased building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel , because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth; and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

Col 3:12-17 NKJV

Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so you also must do.  But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.