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February 22, 2018 at 9:47 am #6026

JPalmer

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Thank you for this post!

When I read the story of Babel this week, my first thought was: God doesn’t create division, that is a tactic of the human mind. (A thought only made possible by what I have learned here.) I certainly know that every human system I tried before coming to Plainfield only left me feeling more alone, more separate from joy, purpose, and fulfillment. The material view of things now seems to have a new division popping up every day, constantly trying to confound not only the language, but all facets of daily life.

These divisions were intensely distressing before this church showed me how to watch. Now, I am knowing more and more that these divisions are proof that error is destroying itself. As Christ Jesus said, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation;” (Matthew 12: 25) What a blessing it is to have that material view upended!

And, because of all this, the following verse jumped out today as the law it is:

3. Matthew 12
30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.

Thank you for these lessons, and for the constant instruction that shows me how to live increasingly “un-confounded” and filled with the joy, purpose, and fulfillment that only comes from God.