GENTLE AS DOVES WISE AS SERPENTS
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The Lord calls his people to be gentle with neighbors, brothers.
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The Lord calls his people to be wise as serpents, to recognize evil strategies of others.
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For God’s children are to think, speak and act as children, in faith, before him.
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God allows for human strategies in those of the world, but not in his children.
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“to be wise as serpents” implies God’s heartfelt desire that his children follow holy protocol,
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the innocence to believe in him in total disregard for the world, as little children do.
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The allowance made to those of the world who employ human strategy is God’s permissive will,
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not his ordaining will.
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“gentle as doves,” as little children living innocently about the world, and “wise as serpents,” as children
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living soberly in the world — these truths embody God’s will for his children.
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