Malice

I was trying to remember when I first noticed that they had stoppped talking to each other. I did observe it in the fifth grade....the year of the hormone. ...but it only came home personally to me when I was the victim of the silent treatment. I was supervising a staff of five in a residential facility....and being a little thick in the head from the start..I only noticed after a couple days that I was being ignored...it was quite a shocker...or lets just say a new experience....thankfully I had not encountered this phenomena during the going steady years. ...there just seemed to be so much to talk about especially the many and thorough late-night-over-the -phone movie reviews by the significant other. ****************** The next time I noticed the word malice it was in a somewhat different context. Without even noticing I had become interested in the judicial system because maybe ...my sister was working a lot in "the jugdes chamber" and was always telling exciting tales / stories of/from "the bench". So I caught on somehow the the phrase "with malice and forethought". ****************** Then of cousre I came across a reference in sunday school "let all malice be put away and be ye kind one to another tender-hearted forgiving one another even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you" ****************** THE FULL QUOTE 31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: 32 And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you. ****************** I felt a new excitement today as I heard this: I sought the Lord.... AND HE HEARD ME !!! ****************** I was excited because during the past weeks we were studying at our sunday spot the sad fate of the manic depressive suicidal saul...who we found out had come to this condition because of his disobedience to God. ****************** A very terrifying point in the story was when he tried to pray to God and realized he was not being heard. ****************** A similar reference was made of Samson when he shook himself as at other times not realizing that God had left him. ****************** a sobering warning regarding this is described in the Proverbs....explaing exactly why this can happen. ****************** 23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. 24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. 28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: 29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: 30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. 32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. 33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.