No one is insensitive to you Steven. Some of us try to share with you how to get a Yes and Amen from Jesus but you as well as many others will not listen to Instructions from us nor will you hear it directly from the Bible which is directly from Jesus. Why should we waist our time with anyone who would argue with us or even call us names?
I explained several times, but I just say look up the count it all joy verse, and notice that it says,WHEN you are persecuted for My sake and thus and so according to that. I DO NOT see where "all" means count everything under the sun as a great celebration."All" meaning nothing but but joy WHEN{at that specific time} not walk around deliriously happy under adverse circumstances24/7. I disagree with how most interpret the verse.2}also everyone has adifferent tolerance level, so "knocking" someone who doesn't react exactly like you, is to me being on the judgemental side.
None of us are going to understand exactly what God/Jesus meanings are until we ask for His understanding, His meanings in the Name Jesus. When we do that we can learn that counting anything He asks us to count as joy does not mean celebrate or a celebration. We can all be ignorant unless God/Jesus gives us His understanding.
Even so, there are many pastors who, one says a verse means this way, and another says the verse means another way.The verse as I read it states, "Count it all joy when you are persecuted for My sake and people lyingly say all kinds of things against you for My sake. For in this manner they did to the prophets."Also, Jesus was talking to the apostles of His day, before certain things existed, so getting stuck in an elevator ,or a car stalling in a tunnel and no cell signal there,etc. if He was talking to the people of that day and those things didn't happen, coupled with the fact that He added,"When" not "at all times", it seems to me that maybe most are interpreting it to mean everything when it's not specifically stated that way.To be happy when stalled in a tunnel with no cell service{and also late for things because of it}, I don't know...there's a difference between acepting something because it is what it is and prefering it that way.if I deal with an automated service and they don't understand, and I can't convince a machine, I don't consider that a "fun" experience.
