There was once a time when I acted without thinking. I spoke without first praying. I did and said whatever in the name of free speech, free world, free thinking. I mean, it is America, it is 2025-we get to do that, right?
Sure, if you want to stay emotionally dysregulated and immature.
If you want to continue disregarding someone else as if they are not also human.
I lived in anger and unforgiveness
I lived with my heart so bricked up not even the Lord was getting through
One day the Lord did get through, and everything began to change.
My demeanor
My words
My voice
My love for others and a desire to be the Godly woman I was called to be.
My “truth” is HIS Word
Now I pray without ceasing and pray before speaking and do nothing without first feeling in my soul that it is the right thing.
When the Lord calls you out of your comfort zone, sometimes what he calls you to is going to make someone else uncomfortable too-maybe even angry.
I don’t want to hurt anyone, but more than that, I refuse to ignore when the Lord is pressing upon my spirit.
God will use other people for correction, especially when we aren’t being receptive.
Our flesh doesn’t like correction, most particularly when our heart and mind already made up the narrative that we are right.
Sure, the devil uses people too and that is why we must know the difference and be aware of who is bringing the correction.
I received correction in my recent past and I DID NOT want to receive it. The first thing the I thought was “this person doesn’t know me, how dare she” my second thought “she knows God and God knows me”, And third-is what she said true about me and is the truth she speaking Biblically sound?
Sometimes it’s going to take someone we wouldn’t typically hear, to say the things we don’t like.
It’s uncomfortable. It makes us uneasy
I tried to reject what she said-it could’ve been delivered better, but it was true, nonetheless.
I confided in Godly women who I knew wouldn’t spare my feelings if it meant I received the message.
Change is hard. Accepting our sin is hard. Being Christian is hard. People are hard.
Not everything said to you will be “from God” and that is why it is important to heed the message, pray on it and hold it up to the Bible.
When God wants to correct us, He is going to use ways that He knows will penetrate because He knows us. He knows our hearts, our minds, our walls.
He knows our flesh can be thick and nasty.
What is God trying to say to you?
What message has someone brought to you that you want to reject because God Himself did not come down from the Heavens and deliver it on a silver platter.
We all need correction. We all need to be better. And we all need people in our corner willing to do the hard thing and love us even when it’s uncomfortable.