BLESSED FROM REASONING WITH GOD

My Dear Precious Child, In Paul's seemingly sarcastic apology in his second recorded letter to the people in the church at Corinth relating to his loving relationship with them, he mentioned the fact that he never accepted money from them for his evangelistic support. He asked them to tell him if there was any injustice in his never asking them for money. His insecurities about his being looked down upon by the other apostles came from the apostles' concern that he never walked and talked personally in human flesh with Jesus, like they had. However, he had enumerated to the Christians at Corinth the many times that he had received revelations from Me that were equal to his having walked in the flesh with Jesus Christ as the two to three years that the other apostles claimed to have done. Paul had spent two to three years in the desert with only My Holy Spirit to teach him, His being the same Spirit of Revelation who spoke through Jesus to His disciples before He was crucified and resurrected. But, still, the accusations from the other apostles occasionally became a burden to Paul. Near the end of his second recorded letter to the Corinthians, Paul told them that he was going to visit them a third time and that he was still not going to become a burden to them because he did not want their money. He wrote that the only thing that he wanted was themselves and their love. He reasoned with them that children do not save up in order to help their parents, but parents save up in order to help their children. In other words, Paul was saying that he, as their spiritual earthly father, was to help them financially instead of his depending upon them for funds. He said that he would gladly spend his money on them. Even in the area of loving them, he reasoned that if he loved them too much that he would not be loved by them any less. He reminded them that he never depended upon them for funds but instead depended upon other groups of Christians. He called that move on his part as "being crafty" by "a little guile." He asked in his second letter if he ever took advantage of them through any of the men he had sent to him? He mentioned Titus and asked if Titus, whom he had sent to minister to the Corinthians, had ever taken financial advantage of the money that was intended for other churches? He asked if Titus and he had walked in the same footsteps of integrity? He finally called attention to the fact that in reading his second letter that they would think that Paul was defending himself. He told them, attesting before Me, that everything that he did was for them, to build them up because of his love for them. Paul's fear was that in his coming to them for the third time that he would not find their actions to his liking, nor that they would find him to their liking. (II Corinthians 11:19-21) He wrote that he was afraid that he would find discord, jealousy, angry outbursts, selfish ambitions, slander and gossip, self importance and disorder in their midst, which had been reported back to him by some of his helpers. Another fear that he had was that when he came to them the third time that he would be humiliated before Me and that he would mourn over and over about the many Corinthians who had sinned earlier and had not repented of their uncleanness, fornication and sensuality that they had recently practiced. Paul grieved more about the sins, disorder, division and uncleanness of the Corinthian Christians than he had been concerned about their pagan lives before their conversions because of his being told about their having been deceived by false prophets who had sown strife, fornication, iniquity and idolatry in their church. He had little reason for worry because his first letter had been dictated by My Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit's words had the power to change their focus and motivations, causing the people to repent. Paul found that out later. Your Father Who Has Time To Reason Together With You