Leviticus 7:12 If he offer it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the sacrifice of thanksgiving unleavened cakes mingled with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried.

The common element within the mingling here is the oil. Oil symbolizes the anointing and Christ is the anointed, so one can concluded that you bring Jesus into every opportunity to mingle. My biggest problem is I do not know what Jesus would say in every setting. The scriptures tell us He sat and ate with sinners, they do not tell us what He said during those moments.

I can hold my own with anyone when it comes to spiritual conversations. Where I get into conversations that I have no knowledge or interest is when I feel like the outsider struggling to fit in to the group. It is those moments when I lose focus of why I am there in the first place, establishing relationship and trust.

Conversations will not be about things that I can feign interest. If I try and fake it, they will see me as insincere. That doesn’t help. It is in those moments when I should be honing my skills of listening. It is a gift that I could improve upon. It is a gift others can appreciate because it does not put pressure upon them. Listening is how we get to know and understand others.

If I am not invited back then I must trust in the words my Savior gave His disciples.

Matthew 10:13 And if the house be worthy, let your peace come upon it: but if it be not worthy, let your peace return to you.

Having done all that is asked of me, they reject the Lord who is with me, and not me myself.

1 John 2:15-16 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

I have given up trying to know what the law says. Common sense says if you do not know the law, then you are likely to break a law just by being ignorant of it. Did you know that it is illegal to have a woman on your arm in public in certain countries? I found out the hard way. A common curtesy to most of us is an offense to others.

Trying to keep track of all the laws is the job of law makers, not law breakers. They make new laws every day. They even make laws these days which identify what you can do. Since when do we need laws that say we have liberty? Wait, doesn’t the first amendment define the liberty of free speech? Doesn’t the second give us the right to own guns? Oh my, I forgot those were called the Bill of Rights.

Somewhere along the line our rights where no longer as important as our wrongs. Liberty abused is no liberty at all. Once again the law became demanding. We took that which God had given us to expose our own sin nature and condemn our hearts so that we turn to Christ for liberty, and turned them into a punitive penal system. We did that because the love of God was no longer prevalent in the hearts of men.

Galatians 5:22-23 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

John 17:23a I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one;

He who loves perfectly needs not the law.