“Kill”

To the person who posted Isaiah 9:6 in the comments,
I shared Bible verses saying that God is one and that He came in the flesh.
I also said that Jesus Christ is the everlasting Father who came as a child.
Then someone sent me 1 Samuel 15:3.
It meant that I should be killed. (This was an English-language comment.)

“Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and do not spare them;
but kill both man and woman, infant and nursing child, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.”
1 Samuel 15:3

The day before yesterday, a friend of nearly fifty years declared that he was ending our relationship.
He said that he had believed and still believed that Jesus Christ is Jehovah God,
so I should not spend my time on him but rather share the message with others.

After receiving that message, I immediately called him and asked him
to talk about the God he believes in,
and, like Paul, to prove to me from the Old Testament alone that Jesus is the Christ.

That friend, who had even studied theology, said this to me:
“I don’t have the gift of speech like you do, so I won’t answer.
If I believe in my heart, that is enough. Why should I have to speak?”

Even if a friend of fifty or even a hundred—years distances himself from me and leaves,
it does not matter to me at all,
because my true friend is my Father.

To be given even one opportunity to share a verse of God’s Word
is truly a great blessing granted to me. My prayer continues today as well:
Father, please use me!

The Father who created heaven and earth became a man for me on this earth,
died, and rose again. Hallelujah!

“He will swallow up death in victory;
and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces;
and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth:
for the LORD hath spoken it.”  Isaiah 25:8