......In a certain church there were these women who took pride in not ever cutting their hair. Their hair on the bun was their sanctification trade mark and they took great pride in the hair bun pile up..Each Sunday they stacked their hair up upon their heads as high as they could as if in competition with the other sisters to see who would have their hair bun piled up the highest. Best friends they were and hair sanctification was their common ground.
......One day a woman of the world came into their church. She was very worldly in her tight fitting pants and attire and her face was all painted to allure. She was one of those that had been around in the sinful ways of the world. Yet this same woman was torn in her heart. Her sins had become heavy on her mind and her soul had become vexed from sins pleasures, sins deceit and abuse. She had no real peace. She was miserable within. She wanted freedom. Her heart was craving to be set free from her bondage of guilt and shame.
......During that church service her hungry heart heard the love of God preached in Christ. She heard the preacher preaching about the woman caught in adultery and how Jesus loved her and forgave her. She heard about the woman called Mary Magdalene who was a whorish woman whom Jesus forgave and saved. The words of that preacher became like a fire of light and love in her heart and soul. Jesus knew she was going to be in that service that day and he prepared that preacher of his to deliver his love message to that woman's longing heart. The lady was so touched in the warmth of Christ and His Love she began to cry and cry.
......It came time for the altar call. That wild looking woman took off running for the altar of God for she was running for the presence of the Lord. Jesus had SEEN HER FAITH and as soon as she got to the altar she fell down on the floor even speaking in other tongues as the Spirit of God gave her utterance. For 30 minutes this lady was in Gods other world called abounding grace.
.......After she came to from being filled with Christ and his love, those women of hair sanctification pride began to gossip about how she looked without and failed to see how she was now clothed with Christ within. She was now born of God and a NEW CREATURE in Christ Jesus. But those fair haired ladies did not seem to care about that. They judged everything by the external and nothing by the internal.
.......Well days turned into weeks and weeks into months and none of those fair haired ladies of hair sanctification pride still would not welcome that woman into their circle. They kept their distance from her all though Christ Himself had come and made his home in her heart to fellowship with her daily in grace and in love.
........Well this new believing woman became disturbed, bothered, and hurt by these ladies because she always felt them shunning her. What can i do she said to win their love? She went home crying. When she got home she looked at herself in the mirror and she saw her short glaring back at her and it dawned on her. I know what I will do. I will go buy a wig that looks like their hair does on Sunday and then they will accept me. She did just that. She went and bought a wig that looked like the Empire State Building all piled up upon her head.
......On the next Sunday she put that wig on and headed to church so excited to fit in with those sisterhood of hair sanctification. When she walked into the church sanctuary she noticed the hair sisterhood ladies looked at her with a quick glance and then quickly looked away. She was crushed. What am i doing wrong she said?. Then she looked down and noticed she was still wearing pants but they never did. So the next Sunday she came to church with the wig and in a dress and when she walked in those ladies of the sisterhood of hair sanctification all got up and highly complimented her and told her, now you can come sit with us. Your sanctified now unto salvation
.....Friends isn't it strange how we can be so filled with Christ Spirit into our hearts and so accepted by Jesus by faith but many religious people live by other rules and demand those rules and ways be upheld or they say we want be accepted or saved.
......I stand strong in the glorious liberty that we have in Christ and I refuse to be entangled with a yoke of religious looking bondage...Since Jesus the greatest of all accepted that woman and filled her heart with himself by her faith, who are we to undo that by the enforcement of a yoke that leads to a religious type bondage..?..Justified by grace thru faith we preach. We do not exalt any form of physical circumcision or hair pile up above Jesus Christ and him crucified and risen from the dead....Paul said, You that began in the spirit are you now only justified by the flesh?.
.....Note....Faith is made powerless and none effective by the guilt that comes from the religious bondage of carnal human rules enforced..Such rules do not increase faith nor faith confidence, and such rules rob us of peace and assurance..But those carnal ordinances and rules do increase doubt, unbelief, and an unhealthy unworthiness that robs faith and crushes blessed peace and assurance that yields forth JOY, the joy and peace that is in believing.....deno.
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