God’s servants are charged and obligated to love you regardless of your lacking and they do but that doesn’t mean they should tolerate your absurdity, applaud your drama or entertain your foolishness. Because they know a little of God’s word, they understand what is expected of them. (Just the same they wouldn’t expect you to suffer from their nonsensicals either, but do intend on hearing you call them out (privately first) on the what nots). It takes a lot of love for a person to correct another on their errors and or mischievous ways without actually killing or murdering their spirit. It requires an overload of patience, lots of wisdom and humility. And even as one humbles themselves for the sole purpose of correcting another, there’s always a grand possibility that the terrain may not be ready to receive, accept, comply or agree that such a correction should come from ‘you.’ Yet God’s word clearly specifies that if you see your brother in sin (Gal. 6:1) to reprove him, (James 5:19-20), unless you want to bear their burdens (Ezekiel 33:7-12), it must be done (2Tim. 4:2) with patience and teaching (Gal. 5:26) without provoking one another. However, it’s important to know where to draw the line even when there’s a given right. Things ought to be done with wisdom and respect.
Remember David, though he knew King Saul was in the wrong in wanting to kill him and it wasn’t in God’s will, still when God delivered him into David’s hands, he was cautious enough to NOT touch God’s anointed. It’s the same King Saul that God rejected that David spoke of. Honestly, it takes anointed grace to confront others concerning their mishaps, and at times it can appear to be purely diabolical what must be confronted. Most will be quick to say “you can’t judge me, you’re not God, you don’t know me or my heart!” Some others might say, ” I’m grown you don’t tell me what to do.” As still others may lash out in reversing a bible verse on you saying, “why don’t you first take the plank out of your eyes, then you’ll see clearer to remove the speck from someone else’s eyes” (Matthew 6:5). All the while they’re drowning deeper into their sinful nature, letting it consume them though it was God that led you to them. When these things occur as they often do, remember this, you’re a simple messenger. Once you delivered the message you’re done. How they reacted, what you were called afterwards when they dug deep into your past because of service rendered has absolutely Nothing to do with you! You need not enter a long strenuous debate to try to explain yourself even if they ask, for fear of being tempted yourself; unless He who sent you also told you to clarify, detail and simplify.
If we look at each person we encounter in life as an individual construction site where we’re merely relief workers it will be simpler. Even if we didn’t know when the previous shift ended; when it’s our turn, we cross their path as directed, focus on the service to be rendered, do it well, Godly and with good humor, then clock out, move on. We weren’t there to close a deal or finish the construction unless God directed otherwise, we leave after having set our brick and leave the next phase to another because we only were responsible for a Portion. Those with burdens of souls whom God has called as Pastors, Evangelists, Bishops and so on will have come after to accomplish the work, to wrap up, if God so wills it. It is indeed great labor and we are always short of workers. Therefore it’s quite important to understand and know how to do the work well so that we don’t appear as those scattering as the Shepherd gathers souls. Know this, after God has managed to gather through Jesus’ salvation gift distributed among those Sheep Herders, anointed for soul-saving purposes, those who disperse souls, the scatterers will be held accountable for destroying or endangering the work. “Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.” (1 Peter 5:8)
Let’s keep God’s Vineyard (Matthew 20:1-16) safe…for by doing so some have entertained angels without knowing….(Hebrews 13:2)!
Written 01-20-2021
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