And so I was led to this contemplation. Evil intensifies as we fight fire with fire - as we return it. Like constructive interference, the black light of Wrong achieves laser-like focus as it stimulates its own emission by amplification of its own energy.
I was going to quote this to her - as a threat, really. Hence, the Spirit says to me (via the voice of my conscience) ‘are you not doing the same’? Indeed, I intended to. I wanted Jesus’s words to say ‘raca!’ (‘empty-head!’) for me…
Here’s a comment I got today, from someone I’d never come across, under my little answer to How did the USA end up with such a farce of a Supreme Court?
Is a man over 50 not married no kids a red flag?
This interaction grieved me. But it also made me think hard. As I began to pray ‘Lord have mercy on America - open the hearts and minds of these people to your Spirit’ I feel like the Spirit spoke to me, in a way He sometimes does - I suddenly felt the pang of irony as these verses entered my mind:
Lord have mercy on me, a sinner. There is so much evil in the world because there is so little repentance. There is so much pride. There is so great a desire to be the Supreme Court of All Things in every human heart.
Matthew 11:16-19 ESV
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I realised that I was the Pharisee again, as usual. I was halfway to ‘thank you that I am not like her’. Oh, the Irony. I am exactly the same. Then another verse struck like the double-edged sword it is:
Well, whatever king she’s referring to must not love me at all, it seems. In an effort to avoid hypocrisy and inform this person I am not an enemy I leave the reply below. After all, I trained in hospitals where we often called nurses ‘sister’. I liked that.
Matthew 5:21-22 ESV
What can melt your heart?
Wisdom speaks the Word that my ear does not want to hear. Wisdom shows me the plank in my own eye, and it is blindingly painful. ‘Why do you call me Good?’, Wisdom says - as if I were qualified to judge…
Luke 18:10-14 ESV
It seemed to have an effect I didn’t really intend. I did mean to admonish her, I guess, but only in the way that I would hope someone like my friend Michelle Johns might admonish me with scriptures I quote (just to be clear, I can’t remember Michelle doing that, but I would hope she and others would, if necessary). Anyway, I was dismayed:
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““But to what shall I compare this generation? It is like children sitting in the marketplaces and calling to their playmates, “‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’ For John came neither eating nor drinking, and they say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, ‘Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds.””
We didn’t start the fire. She made me eat the fruit. They created us.
““You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder; and whoever murders will be liable to judgment.’ But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.”
Hi everybody! I have been looking at posts on narcs and narc abuse on here and if has really helped me out a lot. I am currently struggling with my situation and need some advice/support.
I met a narc last year, everything seemed to good to be true. Love bombing, always texting calling and taking me on dates. Everything changed when someone warned me about him out in public in front of him and who he is. This caused a conflict with us and the love bombing seized.
he would tell me that everything is okay and i can come and talk. He would set a time limit on me and kick me out after that.
he would then text me like everything was fine and we hung out again and after that he completely ghosted me for one week. He came back and texted me a week later laughing about the ghosting and acting like nothing had happened.
he continued to text me ( not like in the beginning) make plans with me, then on the day of the plans he would just ghost me. One day he would act interested the next silence.
i contacted him a month later and he acted like nothing happened. He was on a vacation and sent me a picture of another woman ( someone he allegedly met on the trip) to strike a reaction but i never gave him one. After the trip he came to my place and was extremely rude, accusing me of going on dates with a bunch of men. The next day he accused me of being an alcoholic and that he wanted nothing to do with me but said well maybe we can be "friends" then ghosted me
i assumed at this point it was over and i would never hear from him again. He contacted me on the holiday a month later acting like everything was great. We ended up hanging out a month or so later and when we hung out it went well, i thought things were going in the right direction.
after we hung out.. silence. I would try to text him and if he replied it would be very short then he just stopped replying. He ghosted me for almost three months. I thought he was done this time and of course he popped up again like nothing happened. At this point i was getting sick of if so i questioned him as to why he dissapeared and always does this. Of course he had some sob story about a injury and family member dying of cancer. I felt pity for him and he gave me an apology.. so i took him back stupidly.
things seemed to be going smooth for a couple months, of course until his family member died and his injury got better he never contacted me and was distant. Menawhile, i was there for him during the difficult time for him. He lied to me about the funeral and never wanted to chat. I was chasing him and he would always claim nothing was wrong but when i said i thought he used me when he was down he could not handle it and would always tell me he didnt care and to go away. I would get so upset i would try texting him to work it out he would barelt respond and if he did he would not be nice about it.
we did hang out a couple times after that, he would ignore me after. One day i was like hey i think you are seeing someone else, and i was like well ixam seeing someone so no problem if you are he said " buy bye good luck with your new guy stop contacting me" i was devastated and tried to get into contact with him for weeks then i just gave up and accepted it was over. He ended up contacting me a month later acting like everything was fine. He wanted to go out and have drinks i told him i would. He and i both seemed to have a great time. He ends up ignoring me again. I kept texting him trying to figure out what was wrong. He kept saying everything was fine and i said ok can we hang out again? He said maybe i was like why? He just kept saying maybe …
our last conversation we had… i said what is wrong ? He said nothing is wrong everything is fine. I asked him why he keeps saying maybe. He said " maybe but i dont want to see you right now" i said why? He saix " im just not feeling it, if i wanted to date i would" i said why did you contact me less then a week ago wanting to go out? He said i didnt.. even though he did. So i said should i just move on or what? He said whatever you want to do. So i said that he was really confusing me and asked him if he had anything more to say before i move on? My messages were turning green so i panicked he blocked me and reacted irrationally. I said " omg did you block me? My messages are not going through. Even texted him on my work phone asking what was up. And called him twice ( please dont judge me i know it is pathetic i never was this type of girl before him) so he replied and said " Ok I'll block you now" then immedietly blocked me. He has never blocked me before since I have met him he will just ghost. Is this ths final discard aka " grand finale? Did i just push him too far?
this has upset me so much its hard to even function.
We serve as mirrors to one another, but we do not perceive our own projection in reflection. Jesus does, though, and His Grace and wisdom serve as the one optical medium that distorts the dispersion into a sensible image:
Because those of us who are evil don’t think we are. We think we’re good. We’re the heroes, remember?
One of my rules I try to abide by is ‘don’t comment unless you know who you’re talking to’. So I check the profile:
Which Bibles can one read and be confident they are reading the inerrant word of God?
There’s always someone to blame. Someone’s gonna get crucified for all this, and it ain’t gonna be me. I’m the good guy.
““Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.””
