Sue J Love
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Proverbs 17:10,24 NIV
10 A rebuke impresses a discerning person
more than a hundred lashes a fool.
24 A discerning person keeps wisdom in view,
but a fool’s eyes wander to the ends of the earth.
If you are a person of discernment, you are someone who is characterized as a person who is able to perceive, to distinguish, and to judge clearly. You are someone who has wisdom and insight who is able to differentiate between truth and lies, and good and evil. And this is not to say that you have a 100% success rate, for we are all still human, too. But if you are a believer in Jesus Christ, that power of discernment should be coming from the Lord and from the teachings of the Scriptures, and not from human flesh.
The foolish person, nonetheless, is the opposite of a person of discernment. So, if you are a foolish person, it means that you are unwise, thoughtless, irrational, reckless, and senseless. You are someone who makes unwise choices which are not well thought out, but which are usually the result of human impulse and greed and lust. So, you make decisions based on human emotion and passion and desire, rather than on logic, reason, common sense, prudence and discretion. And you may literally despise wisdom.
The foolish person, thus, is prone to addictive sinful patterns of behavior, for he lives by his feelings, rather than walks by faith in the Lord Jesus. He is someone who feels he is right, in his own eyes, for he is also full of pride and of self-importance. Self is on the throne of his life, and not God. He may also be a compulsive liar who hides his sins in secret so that no one else will know, while he may profess faith in Jesus Christ. He may, as well, be mischievous, and someone who plays tricks on others, just for sport.
He will not be someone who is receptive to the teachings of the Scriptures on holiness and righteousness, and on repentance and walks of obedience to the Lord. For he is like the person who looks at himself in the mirror but then goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like (James 1:22-25). He may hear the word of truth, but he does not do what it teaches, not in practice. And he will not take kindly to any kind of honest and caring rebuke, because he is full of pride, and he wants to remain that way.
But the person of discernment, who is a follower of Jesus Christ, who is following the ways of the Lord, and not of fleshly desires and pursuits, should also be a person of love and compassion who loves and cares about those whose lives are given over to pleasing the flesh, and not given to pleasing God. And he should have a strong spiritual desire to want to share the truth of the gospel with the people of the world and with the rebellious and the self-serving who need to repent and to obey God with their lives.
And this would be following the example of Jesus Christ who spoke truth even to his enemies who wanted him dead. For Jesus came to this earth in order to die on that cross, to take the sins of the world on himself, so that, in his death our sins would die with him, so that in his resurrection he might have victory over sin and death and Satan. And all this was so that we can now die with him to sin, and live for him in walks of obedience to his commands in holy living, by the grace of God, and in the power of God.
[Matt 5:13-16; Matt 28:18-20; Lu 6:27-28; Jn 4:31-38; Jn 13:13-17; Jn 14:12; Ac 1:8; Ac 2:14-18; Ac 26:18; Rom 10:14-15; Rom 12:1-8; Rom 15:14; 1 Co 12:1-31; 1 Co 14:1-5; Gal 6:1; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:1-16; Eph 5:11-27; Eph 6:10-20; Php 2:1-8; Col 1:9; Col 3:12-16; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 3:13; Heb 10:23-25; Jas 5:19-20; 1 Pet 2:9,21; 1 Jn 2:6; Jude 1:22-23]
The Lord’s Anointed
An Original Work / December 16, 2011
Based off Isaiah 61
The Spirit of the Sov’reign Lord on me;
Anointed to preach the Good News;
Sent me to bind up the brokenhearted;
Proclaim freedom for the captives.
He sent me to preach release for pris’ners
Who are walking in sin’s darkness;
Proclaim God’s grace to all men who’ll listen;
And tell them about God’s judgments;
Comfort all who mourn;
Give crowns of beauty;
Oil of gladness and thanksgiving.
They will be called oaks of God’s righteousness,
A planting of our Savior, God,
For the display of our Lord’s splendor, and
They will rebuild God’s holy church.
God will renew them, and will restore them,
And you’ll be called priests of the Lord.
You will be ministers of our God, and
You will rejoice in salvation.
The Lord loves justice;
He is faithful to
Reward those who are seeking Him.
I delight greatly in the Lord;
My soul rejoices in my Savior, God.
He has clothed me with His salvation,
And in a robe of His righteousness.
He has given me priestly garments to wear,
As the bride of Jesus Christ.
As the garden of our Lord and Savior,
He causes us to grow in Him.
He makes righteousness,
Praise, and thanksgiving
Spring up before all the nations.
Are You a Person of Discernment?
An Original Work / February 20, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
10 A rebuke impresses a discerning person
more than a hundred lashes a fool.
24 A discerning person keeps wisdom in view,
but a fool’s eyes wander to the ends of the earth.
If you are a person of discernment, you are someone who is characterized as a person who is able to perceive, to distinguish, and to judge clearly. You are someone who has wisdom and insight who is able to differentiate between truth and lies, and good and evil. And this is not to say that you have a 100% success rate, for we are all still human, too. But if you are a believer in Jesus Christ, that power of discernment should be coming from the Lord and from the teachings of the Scriptures, and not from human flesh.
The foolish person, nonetheless, is the opposite of a person of discernment. So, if you are a foolish person, it means that you are unwise, thoughtless, irrational, reckless, and senseless. You are someone who makes unwise choices which are not well thought out, but which are usually the result of human impulse and greed and lust. So, you make decisions based on human emotion and passion and desire, rather than on logic, reason, common sense, prudence and discretion. And you may literally despise wisdom.
The foolish person, thus, is prone to addictive sinful patterns of behavior, for he lives by his feelings, rather than walks by faith in the Lord Jesus. He is someone who feels he is right, in his own eyes, for he is also full of pride and of self-importance. Self is on the throne of his life, and not God. He may also be a compulsive liar who hides his sins in secret so that no one else will know, while he may profess faith in Jesus Christ. He may, as well, be mischievous, and someone who plays tricks on others, just for sport.
He will not be someone who is receptive to the teachings of the Scriptures on holiness and righteousness, and on repentance and walks of obedience to the Lord. For he is like the person who looks at himself in the mirror but then goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like (James 1:22-25). He may hear the word of truth, but he does not do what it teaches, not in practice. And he will not take kindly to any kind of honest and caring rebuke, because he is full of pride, and he wants to remain that way.
But the person of discernment, who is a follower of Jesus Christ, who is following the ways of the Lord, and not of fleshly desires and pursuits, should also be a person of love and compassion who loves and cares about those whose lives are given over to pleasing the flesh, and not given to pleasing God. And he should have a strong spiritual desire to want to share the truth of the gospel with the people of the world and with the rebellious and the self-serving who need to repent and to obey God with their lives.
And this would be following the example of Jesus Christ who spoke truth even to his enemies who wanted him dead. For Jesus came to this earth in order to die on that cross, to take the sins of the world on himself, so that, in his death our sins would die with him, so that in his resurrection he might have victory over sin and death and Satan. And all this was so that we can now die with him to sin, and live for him in walks of obedience to his commands in holy living, by the grace of God, and in the power of God.
[Matt 5:13-16; Matt 28:18-20; Lu 6:27-28; Jn 4:31-38; Jn 13:13-17; Jn 14:12; Ac 1:8; Ac 2:14-18; Ac 26:18; Rom 10:14-15; Rom 12:1-8; Rom 15:14; 1 Co 12:1-31; 1 Co 14:1-5; Gal 6:1; Eph 2:8-10; Eph 4:1-16; Eph 5:11-27; Eph 6:10-20; Php 2:1-8; Col 1:9; Col 3:12-16; Tit 2:11-14; Heb 3:13; Heb 10:23-25; Jas 5:19-20; 1 Pet 2:9,21; 1 Jn 2:6; Jude 1:22-23]
The Lord’s Anointed
An Original Work / December 16, 2011
Based off Isaiah 61
The Spirit of the Sov’reign Lord on me;
Anointed to preach the Good News;
Sent me to bind up the brokenhearted;
Proclaim freedom for the captives.
He sent me to preach release for pris’ners
Who are walking in sin’s darkness;
Proclaim God’s grace to all men who’ll listen;
And tell them about God’s judgments;
Comfort all who mourn;
Give crowns of beauty;
Oil of gladness and thanksgiving.
They will be called oaks of God’s righteousness,
A planting of our Savior, God,
For the display of our Lord’s splendor, and
They will rebuild God’s holy church.
God will renew them, and will restore them,
And you’ll be called priests of the Lord.
You will be ministers of our God, and
You will rejoice in salvation.
The Lord loves justice;
He is faithful to
Reward those who are seeking Him.
I delight greatly in the Lord;
My soul rejoices in my Savior, God.
He has clothed me with His salvation,
And in a robe of His righteousness.
He has given me priestly garments to wear,
As the bride of Jesus Christ.
As the garden of our Lord and Savior,
He causes us to grow in Him.
He makes righteousness,
Praise, and thanksgiving
Spring up before all the nations.
Are You a Person of Discernment?
An Original Work / February 20, 2025
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love
