Momentous Changes

  “Dear brothers and sisters, if another believer is overcome by some sin, you who are godly should gently and humbly help that person onto the right path.” Galatians 6:1

  God is good. I needed to hear this message because of events of the past week.

  While I can’t go into details, suffice it to say that I was challenged to firstly, stand up for myself then secondly, call someone else out on their wrongdoing.

  This isn’t something I do easily and I am left wrestling with a bit of second guessing around my actions and words. As my friend reminded me, this isn’t of God because it is rooted in insecurity and a lack of trust in God that He would be with me through the entire process. He gave me the words to both challenge and encourage the person I had to call to task.

   Overall, it went well. I will continue to work with this person to help them overcome the behaviours and attitudes that makes them very difficult to love. I know God has them in my life for a reason and maybe this is it. I do know my heart is in the right place despite my initial anger about the situation that led to all this. God replaced this anger with hope.

  I guess, and this applies to all of us, even me, it’s often easier to lay blame on someone else for the way we are, for the things we do and say, rather than owning it. But here’s the thing, until we take responsibility for our actions and choices, nothing will change.

 

  Only then can the next step be taken: surrendering our mistakes, our sin, to God. He has a bottomless well of forgiveness. AMEN!

 

  PS: The house is coming along in leaps and bounds. I am heading over there today to do some mudding and taping of new drywall, hopefully to have it done by the weekend. Then I can paint. It looks better than I had imagined!

  There’s another side to all this. Finally seeing the finished product has infused a whack of confidence in my own ability to make the right choices. While it’s not paint colours, I have to give thanks to God because this confidence has helped me do what I needed to do regarding the person I just wrote about.

  It’s a tapestry moment. AMEN!