“It all comes down too you and your heart and how you press into the Lord.”
This is something huge the lord has been doing in my heart this month.
I have come to learn I am a feeler, and I can feel the emotions of everyone around me. As my role of being a team leader, I want to make sure my team and everyone in it is growing, but something huge the Lord has been showing me is I operate like that in life.
I want to make sure everyone is happy, and I don’t like conflict. I’m learning sometimes there just has to be conflict.
We are called to be sons and daughters of Christ, and through that, the battles come. When conflict arises, there are two things happening. Either we have a heart issue or they have a heart issue. However, if there is never any conflict that means we are not sharpening each other.
What it means to sharpen someone is to fight for them. If you see them doing something that is hurting them, you want to call it out. A healthy relationship is calling each other higher. It means saying the hard stuff even when it’s scary and hurts.
If we truly love someone, we want to see them come out of brokenness and rise above the battles that weigh them down. However, it never crossed my mind that by not saying the hard stuff to my brothers and sisters I am hindering there growth. I am keeping a word from them that God wants them to hear.
There is an effective way to share and a non-effective way to share. If what I say causes conflict but I did it out of love, then it’s on that person. If I told them something I see and put my own flesh into that, then that’s on me.
We are called to love each other. We are called to grow and further the kingdom, and when we see our brothers and sisters walking in a way that’s not effective, we need to speak up.
We come from a culture where we are not supposed to say anything to offend. Well, maybe we need to stop looking at everything that way. Maybe we need to get down to the hard stuff. In America, it’s so easy for us to hide our junk, and when someone tries to bring it up, we get the words “I’m offended” or “your judging me”. I think it’s time to break that!
We need to stop living in the mind set of being offended whenever we get told were doing something wrong. When someone truly loves you, they tell you the hard stuff because they want you to grow.
We are robbed so much in our culture, because we want to pretend everything is okay. The perfect human. Well we’re not! We’re imperfect humans, and only Jesus is perfect. We need to rise up and say the hard stuff so we can look more Christ like.
We need to put down our pride and flesh and say, “thank you for loving me”. Only we can truly change. No one can make us change. We need to stop blaming others and take up responsibility for our own actions. It’s up to us at the end of the day for that true heart change.
On the World Race, we live in community. We have feedback. We call people higher, but none of that matters, if we don’t truly look at the reason behind why we need to change. We want to look more like Jesus!
It’s a everyday action of saying “yes” to change, and “no” to offense. It’s our choice. Do we want to look more like Jesus or look more like the world?
It’s time to change and be the light! Darkness cannot live where light lives. That’s what our lives are about! Let’s choose the hardships and growth, and when someone calls you higher out of love, saying “thank you for your love in the hardships” instead of “your offending me.”
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Thank you and God bless!!
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God bless,
Sareece Heitmann
“The World Race”
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