Captious

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8-15-19 Thursday

 

My Dad always told me “son don’t be too quick to find faults”.  Yep, he was a great man… but a lousy geologist. 

 

 

 

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Captious

apt to notice and make much of trivial faults or defects; faultfinding; difficult to please.

proceeding from a faultfinding or caviling disposition:

 

 

On Facebook in just the last 48 hours I have seen people captious over

Bethel church

The Passion Translation

Pres. Trump

The song reckless love

Gun rights

Racism

Hillary Clinton

Fallen Christian leaders

 

Now listen, I am not saying that I agree or disagree with these topics or people. And I am not saying that there is a lot right and wrong with much of these- what I am saying is that it’s not your job to fault find every little detail about others who talk and post about such things or about the topics that are out there. 

 

Think of the wasted amount of time we use on stupid trivial topics… when we should stay focused on the majors.

Let me break it down for you in a very controversial example: Wether you are pounding your point about Racism, the Trump administration, Guns, the democrats, the melting polar ice caps or the return of the McRib… if you are not first praying over these situations and people…and I mean serious heaven shaking prayers you are simply being captious. No amount of posting, boasting fault or fact finding will change our world for the better… only gut busting prayer. 

*Here is the bottom line: if you are not praying seriously over your “soap box item” then no matter how much you work towards it- you simply are trivializing it by not praying over it. (it’s so important… but pray over it??? uhm…)

AND if you are debating and calling faults on others and not praying for them like Christ would - again your Christianity is pretty thin and emaciated. 

 

Titus 3:10 As for a person who stirs up division, after warning him once and then twice, have nothing more to do with him

 

How many people should delete us on Facebook for crossing line. 

Have you stirred up division by something you posted or something you said? Maybe it’s time you get deleted.

 

Or maybe you should delete others for their behavior… but either way it sounds like God is pretty serious about the matter. 

 

"In the battle of life it is not the critic who counts. Not

the man who points out how the strong man stumbled or where

the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs

to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred

by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs

and comes short again and again; who knows the great

enthusiasms, the great devotions and spends himself in a

worthy cause. Who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph

of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at

least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall

never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither

victory nor defeat."

-- Theodore Roosevelt