We have left debrief in Cusco, Peru and are now in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It has taken me awhile to write because I have been trying to put my thoughts together from debrief. Thoughts from this past month and from the teaching of Andrew Sherman. Andrew gave us all a good swift kick in the behind. One that I needed. It is no holds bar with him. He doesn’t sugar coat anything and says things how they are .There are no pretenses.
I used to be someone that sugarcoated everything and was never blunt or straightforward. I was always afraid of offending somebody. I thought I never used to care what other people thought but I was always afraid of hurting someones feelings by the words that came out of my mouth. Guess I did care in some aspect. Many times I sugar coated words, and probably most of the time didn’t say anything at all. The Lord is pulling me out of that though. He is showing me the line between saying things nicely and bluntly/straightforward and being blunt and negative/not putting things nicely. I’m still not sure exactly where that line is, but i’m learning that not everything needs to be sugar coated candy.
I want to share soemthing that Andrew said…offenses are going to come-ACCEPT IT , LEARN FROM IT, AND GET OVER IT!! offenses are a gift from God. He knows the measure of our defenses and weaknesses. Recieve the offenses as a gift from God that is going to help us learn. God is the rock that offends. Not to say that we aren’t going to feel any emotion when something happens but it is what you do with that reaction/emotion. Choose to be offended or take it and learn. Learn to become unoffendable!
I don’t know about you but I want to be unoffendable!!
