There is mountains of theology in the following.  Some of it someone else’s words some of it mine…
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He has let some of you be abused, he didn’t stop them.
He has let some of you abuse, he didn’t stop you.

There must be something that it’s sooooo valuable, that is worth sooooo much that it’s worth the price for us to be free, Even though what we do sometimes is evil. And that thing is Love….  He wants your love and you to love others from a point of free will… self-responsibility, self control from within that free will.

Being completely you within the circumstances that are continually unfolding around you, the you that God called you to be, the you that is not interacting with those circumstances from a position of inner hurt, any sort of self-medication that can look like any of the following and more: chemicals, control, striving, loneliness, needyness….  That is when you have arrived at a certain level of freedom within you that Jesus came to give you.  That is you finally living within the gift of Jesus.

When you get into the realm of honor that is that free you interacting with the people in those circumstances unfolding around you….

That is the goal you should have in being a disciple to others.  Jesus Clearly sent out the 12 and the 72 long before they were at that point, that is ok but that should be your goal with yourself and your place with others… and the path you are taking others on and the path they take others on…  and on and on.

When that kind of Love and Honor begins to permeate the world you live in outwardly from you, that is heaven coming to earth….

Alan Smith