I had the awesome opportunity this week to experience the up close and personal affects of choosing to be love in a personal, daily challenging situation. As a Christian “lifer” at times it has been my experience to promote encouragement and change within my community. I love to see how immature Christians develop from the emotional state of salvation to the sober state of relationship by finding God in a personal, intimate way. That has been most fulfilling but in recent years God has broadened my perspective of the journey. I will always continue to help struggling Christians towards fulfilling the “expected end” God desires for their life but what about those who don’t have a clue. I am speaking of those who don’t know Jesus is love, the Bible is our life’s manual, who Jeremiah is or what Jerimiah 29:11 even means. I am looking to touch those lives and simply introduce them to the love of Jesus. So over the last few months God put me to the challenge.
I had the awesome opportunity to minister by actions not by words to a wonderfully challenged coworker. She has a beautiful spirit but like most of us it comes easier to demonstrate the pain versus the joy of living. I decided to accept the challenge. Some days I lost, choosing to react to her pain but in the end we both won when I decided to respond to her pain. I started praying for her and even fasting so the chains would be broken in me and her. You see, the sick may not always make it to the hospital but we as spiritual physicians have the awesome ability to effect change wherever we are. So I made the decision to only respond when Holy Spirit directed me to and not take advantage of my sometimes valid carnal reactions. I can not tell you how excited I am for this young lady. To “be” light requires no “deep” interactions. Jesus walked among the common so much so they had to pay Judas to point him out. Let us strive to be the Jesus by our everyday interactions in love, by love for love.
God change our hears so that we will desire to touch lives that know nothing about your love but will experience your love by our actions at work, the grocery story, the classroom, the courthouse, the mall, etc. Help us to not only disciple our Christian family members to effect change in our communities but help us a leaders to effect change wherever we are!!
~She speaks; She writes ~ 