{"id":6325,"date":"2022-08-10T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop.honestreflections.net\/?p=6325"},"modified":"2022-07-04T12:18:38","modified_gmt":"2022-07-04T17:18:38","slug":"grievance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/2022\/08\/10\/grievance\/","title":{"rendered":"GRIEVANCE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Daily Reading:<\/strong> Ezra 10:1-44 ESV<\/a>, 1 Corinthians 6:1-20 ESV<\/a>, Psalm 31:9-18 ESV<\/a>, Proverbs 21:3 ESV<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Daily Verse:<\/strong> \u201cWhen one of you has a grievance<\/em> against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?\u201d (1 Corinthians 6:1 ESV)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

PRAGMA (4229): <\/strong>\u201cThat which has been done, a deed.  Akin to prasso, \u201cto do,\u201d denotes \u201cbusiness\u201d 1 Cor. 6:1, in a forensic sense, \u201ca lawsuit.\u201d[i]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forensic sense.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul admonishes the Corinthians for taking their grievances out in the Roman courts.  Challenging them, Paul wants to know why they don\u2019t care about God\u2019s law.  Instead, they take their troubles to people who neither know nor follow God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Becoming more like Christ will baffle people in your life.  As you move away from negative thought patterns and embrace the teachings of Jesus, your life does change. Leaving behind your sinful life changes relationships, actions, and words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tiffany Jenkins, an American author whose best-selling book details her battle with addiction, answered a question on social media.  \u201cCan you still drink?\u201d Posting photos, she illustrated her previous life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes and no.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Tiffany\u2019s response, she wrote about waking up on people\u2019s lawns, unaware of her surroundings.  Recalling her words and actions, she described a bleak life.  Tiffany\u2019s closing comments speak volumes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo yes, technically as a person over the age of I\u2019m \u201callowed\u201d to drink, but as a person who knows where it will lead me, I chose not to\u2026Life is too good without it.\u201d Tiffany Jenkins<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul\u2019s words to the Corinthians remind them, following Jesus changes how you deal with life.  When you have grievances with others, find out what Jesus would do first.  Instead of acting like the world, imitate Christ.  Turn the other cheek, work on forgiving, and find ways to bring peace into the situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, you can do whatever you want to do.  But no, following our desires instead of Jesus leads us to places we don\u2019t want to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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[i]<\/a> Strong, J., & Strong, J. (2010). The New Strong’s expanded exhaustive concordance of the Bible<\/em>. Greek Dictionary of the New Testament<\/em> (p. 208) Thomas Nelson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2 minute read. Daily Reading: Ezra 10:1-44 ESV, 1 Corinthians 6:1-20 ESV, Psalm 31:9-18 ESV, Proverbs 21:3 ESV Daily Verse: \u201cWhen one of you has a grievance against another, does he dare go to law before the unrighteous instead of the saints?\u201d (1 Corinthians 6:1 ESV) PRAGMA (4229): \u201cThat which has been done, a deed.  Akin… Continue reading GRIEVANCE<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","without-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6325"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6404,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions\/6404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.honestreflections.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}