This month has been a difficult month to love each other. Not because of anything intentional, but there was definitely a spirit of disunity that lingered in this area. What I mean by that, is there was many cases where we felt defensive or dislike against one another without much explanation! It wasn’t something we experienced before, but this month in Bolivia we did.
There was even a time where I woke up and wanted to do God time. I would put on my ear buds to signify I’m speaking with God. I didn’t even have to plug it into anything. But already, I felt that someone will barge in and not notice my headphones and start speaking to me loudly. I already felt angry towards my teammates when it hasn’t even happened. Maggie noticed that I was a little agitated and asked me what was up. I decided to share even though it was awkward. When I talked it through, I realize that was very odd of me to assume the worst of my teammates.
This was just one case of what had happened this month of disunity. But the beauty through this was, we didn’t leave it at that to fester. Each one of us decided to intentionally pursue each other. To speak through the hard things and show what we were feeling! Every time we ‘came to the table’ (to share our feelings and what we are struggling with), we give the enemy no space for the spirit of disunity. We give the enemy no space for lies to linger in our minds. In the end we fight through the lies we have been told, and found that we do intentionally love each other.
How beautiful is that, when you intentionally pursue each other and bring up the difficult discussion, it leads to growth in relationship and true love for one another! I encourage you to push in to those who you have struggles with and to reconcile with them!
“Put on then, as God’s chose ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.”
Colossians 3: 12 to 13
