When someone is struggling with consequences for bad decisions they may have made, the last thing that they need is to be discouraged by our heavy-handed criticisms and judgments.
Now, this doesn’t mean that we avoid issues or fail to challenge one another when we are wrong. But it does mean that we are compassionate even when we are confronting one another.
Lord have mercy if our actions drive an already wounded soul away from
God instead of drawing them to God!
Humility realizes that it is only of the LORD’s mercy that we haven’t all been consumed. We all come up short. We all stumble. We all have errors in our judgment. We all mess up!
So the next time you want to slam someone else for missing the mark, try to think of what you would need to hear if you were in their shoes – and say that!
After all – it could be you!
Brothers, if anyone is caught in any transgression, you who are spiritual should restore him in a spirit of gentleness. Keep watch on yourself, lest you too be tempted. 2 Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. 3 For if anyone thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Good Morning, I love you all!
ihs,
just adam
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