2015

The most profound thing I learned this year.

Simple: how NOT TO BE the Holy Spirit in another persons life.

Cost: long suffering / patience

Prize: long suffering / patience... (OK, Character)


How to be the person whom knows the consequences of anothers actions, and also know that the only way the other will truly know what they are doing is wrong is by shutting up, and waiting on God to speak it to them... maybe even praying as you watch the whole messy mess unfold.

It takes trust.  Not just in God, but in the other persons relationship with God.  It takes wait.  It takes the grace understood and given by God.  G-R-A-C-E, grace.  The same grace Jesus had as he walked this earth.  His amazing grace we have access to.

It takes looking back at others whom have allowed me the same courtesy to do so for fellow brothers and sisters.  Wrote a thank you card, thanking those whom choose not to correct me, but waiting on conviction from a shared father to discipline and correct.  Convict and forgive.

Then with ease in my spirit it spreads to the corporate body, to those outside the body, then to mankind.  Applied to efforts of Salvation.  Human efforts failed as God beckons all of His own to Himself.

God speaks.  He convicts.  He corrects.  He disciplines those He loves.  Trust that He does this.  Trust that your brothers and sisters will hear this.  Stop taking His job and making it become an earthly temporary thing.  Let it be true conviction, true repentance, let it last an eternity... for Him, for His glory.  For His kingdom come.  Get out the way.  THE WAY.