Having brotherly affection

[Julie1]

Sometimes I do question how are we all going to get on in the new system?

Even in the organisation there is friction amongst brothers.

And amongst family members even if you worship together.

Then there's the situation of a divorce and getting on with the new wife. 

Unless Jehovah expects us to be with original partners? 

So many questions, I suppose it's not for us to worry about. 

It's things I never used to worry about, but then life and experiences happen and responsibility. 

 

[jwzhang]

I understand how you feel @Julie1

 

I don't have much to add but it's something I think about at times too.

 

The biggest difference in the new system will be us returning to perfection. That's something we cannot even comprehend since we've been imperfect since birth, with perfect thinking and mind, it will be easier to get along and a more balanced/less negative perception of ourselves and others

[Julie1]

7 hours ago, jwzhang said:

I understand how you feel @Julie1

 

I don't have much to add but it's something I think about at times too.

 

The biggest difference in the new system will be us returning to perfection. That's something we cannot even comprehend since we've been imperfect since birth, with perfect thinking and mind, it will be easier to get along and a more balanced/less negative perception of ourselves and others

@jwzhangyes perfection is going to resolve a lot. I hope we all make it at the start, it's definitely hard to keep on that straight narrow path, I feel like I have to pull my feet together constantly trying to keep focused on what it's really all about. 

And then we get to perfection and Satan is released, this is something my son and me talk about sometimes, I wonder what "a little while means"? And will we be warned? 

I don't think Satan can use the charmed serpent again. 

Things are set out for our benefit in the Bible for us to follow regarding relationships and getting on with one another, why is there so much resistance in doing the simple things, the obvious things. 

I don't want to really go into my personal experiences but I will give an example as an illustration.

A parent of a adult married child had a relationship that to people from the outside saw as close. But they were really always falling out over petty things.

The child always wanted to quickly resolve things "don't let the sun set" 

But the mother would happily not speak to the child for days and the child use to get to the humiliation of begging the mother for a relationship. 

Once, It got so bad the only way to see the mother was at a group meeting, she walked in with her husband and small children and the mother and her husband immediately walked out, the elder who was overseeing the group walked up to the child and said "you shouldn't have come here" 

The child was devastated and had to quickly leave the spiritual group, and so were the grandchildren. 

The relationship eventually reconciled, but the same practice of being ignored continued for years, the child is nearly 60 and is currently experiencing this treatment from the one parent they have left. Over the last 16 years one of the grandchildren has had lots of hospital admissions and is an extremely vulnerable person. 

I know this family very well:) but only wanted to use it as an example, which is why I mentioned the brotherly affection.