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Originally Posted by Sons to Glory!
From todays Witness Wednesday's main page quote (from WL 1975)
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Originally Posted by WL
When you are about to lose your temper, immediately you should call, “O Lord Jesus! I am about to lose my temper. Please come and lose Your temper!” You have to invite the Lord Jesus to lose your temper for you. Sisters often give their husbands a long face. However, from now on, whenever you are about to have a long face, right away you should call, “O Lord! O Lord Jesus!”
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What's wrong with this? |
For starters, what's wrong with it for me is the complete lack of acknowledgement that temper and long face are sometimes completely justified. WL puts the condemnation on any and all emotion while neglecting to mention that the wife, for example, may have a "long face" because their husband regularly puts "the brothers" above her and her needs and their kids needs and spending time with the family, and yet it's just "that long face you often give" which must go. At it's core it's just another denial of mind/will/emotion and genuine human needs. There's no humanity or human nuance to it. Anything human or legitimate must go.