With much bad or evil happening nowadays it is easy to become engaged in faulting someone or passing the blame. In fact, most of the time evil or bad comes our way we try to search out why or by whom. The feeling of sorrow can push us to think certain way and behave another way. Dealing with sorrow is difficult especially when it escalate to heavily grieved. The feeling of sorrow can escalate and become a problem if we do not deal with it; it can break our spirit (Prv15:12). It can become like a mountain of sorrow piling up, and it will become a sickness like it happened to the Paul and the church at Phillipians with Epaphroditus (Phil2:25-27). There is a sorrow that leads us to repentance, but there is one that takes us to death and that is dangerous (2Cor.7:10). One of the characteristics of grief is that of LOWERED TOLERANCE LEVEL, and with that we find ourselves to offending others by the things we say. God has given us with the fruit of self control(Ga5:23), and we can refrain ourselves from saying things that can affect someone else; especially when we are feeling sorrowful. God is not in the business of adding sorrow to our lives (Prv10:22), unless is for repentance.<\/p>\n
2 Corinthians 2:1-4 But I determined this with myself, that I would not come again to you in heaviness. 2\u00a0For if I make you sorry, who is he then that maketh me glad, but the same which is made sorry by me? 3\u00a0And I wrote this same unto you, lest, when I came, I should have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy is the joy of you all. 4\u00a0For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.<\/p>\n
The church of Corinthians were having contentions with the Apostle Paul. They were having problems obeying his letter, and, so Paul along with the church were feeling heavy hearted. Now, Paul had all the rights to write a letter that would have turned their bellies inside out. With how Paul felt; the grief, and anger, he could have sent a letter that would pierce their souls. Instead, Paul determined within himself to be restrained from sharing a bit of sorrow and share a reconciling message with them. He understood that if he came shooting like a cowboy he could only make matters worst, so Paul wrote to this church sharing love and hope no matter how he felt. Like Paul, Jeremiah who while he was in his country with the poor and his people were taken captives because of the false prophets, shared a message of love and hope (Jer.29:11). It did not matter how hopeless or sorrow filled Jeremiah and the people felt, seeing his friends and family taken his message did not change. The circumstance does not change the message within us. It is easy to air out and let out everything in our hearts, but it is not always the best thing. Salomon tells us that if we release what our hearts tell us to say especially when we are hurting it will be cut out; that is the tongue (Pro10:31). He tells us that we need to remove sorrow from our hearts it is becomes an evil in our flesh (Ecc11:10).<\/p>\n
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