Constructive feedback from God
Because i often see things out of my own lens I have a hard time understanding others and certain situations. This hinders love! The love that god is calling me to be rooted in ( Ephesians 3:17)
What does the love of God look like? 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7 4 It is patient and kind; does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Just like i am inconsistent in reading books, jumping from beginning to end laying the book down, likewise this is a reflection of how ive built relationships. I often times skip the middle of the story where all the details are thinking that i can have a full understanding from a summary. The details like – Who are you, what's your passions, what's your burdens, how are you loved best, how can I serve you better, how can I pour into you better, how have I poured into you, do i ever offended you, how can I fight with you, what do you and don't you like, what do you admire, who is christ to you, what are things you doubt, what shakes your faith, what situations break you most, the list goes on!
I am incapable in many ways of effectively leading this team and living how God has called me to live and until i fully grasp that i will keep placing burdens on myself because i am looking to fix broken situations with cheap tools that provide a temporary fix. The one "tool" that I know fixes and restores all things is the tool that I neglect more often than not. The hard thing to grasp is that this tool truly does hold all things together and my cheap tools do not. The moment I neglect the most important tool of them all, my foundation becomes weak and my house crumbles. God has laid it on my heart over and over to read the tool book because if i do not I'll never know about the one tool that holds all things in place nor will I understand how to apply the tool when a problem arises.
It is obvious that the tool I am referring to is christ. It is obvious that the tool book is his word that speaks clearly about who he is and provides sufficient wisdom. I pray that this year and so forth As i build relationships i will not skip from beginning to end but I will spend intentional time in the middle. I pray that as I seek to fix broken situations I do so using the manual of Christ who is the master architect and the sustainer of all things and when I stumble in my walk, my motives, my thoughts, my speech, and so forth, I pray that I always remember that the manual says his love is unconditional, his mercies are rich and new each day, and that is grace is sufficient.
