I was thinking tonight of the feelings we have here in the body and the feelings of some who have drifted away from the Lord. The word malice kept coming to my mind, so I searched it on the bible app to see what the scriptures say about malice. This is what came up, and it struck me that we do not have these feelings here. We do not have bitterness, wrath, anger, rage, slander, filthy talk or evil speaking, deceit, hypocrisy, or envy by any heart that is following Jesus and staying full of the holy ghost. Those feelings do not live among us towards each other, the world, or even any of God’s children who have left Him. We are free from those feelings.
We have feelings of sadness, mercy, prayer, hurt, and maybe frustration, too, but only because we know what others could be with Jesus.
It touched me tonight to go over some of what we are free from.
Here is the definition I found of malice and the scriptures that came up in my search:
malice măl′ĭs
noun
A desire to harm others or to see others suffer; extreme ill will or spite.
The intent to commit an unlawful act without justification or excuse.
An improper motive for an action, such as desire to cause injury to another.
1Co 5:8 so that we might keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Amen!
Eph 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil-speaking be put away from you, with all malice.
Col 3:8 And put away all these things as well: anger, rage, malice, slander, filthy talk from your mouth.
1Pe 2:1¶ Therefore, having put away all malice, and all deceit, and hypocrisy, and envy, and all evil speaking
Beth D.