i have been attending the Feast for a while and severeal times I hear the builders from the different Feast I attend say that the Feast is “a hospital for sinners”, hence anyone and everyone is welcome, some preachers even cite the apostles and what their lifestyle and what their previous jobs were before they were called by Jesus.
given that the Feast is a “hospital of sinners” I expected the worse from the people i meet and interact with and accept all their brokeness, imperfections, flaws and what their behaviours are, and i try to see the good in them and love that part of them, since Jesus called the “unlikely” to be his servants, so I obviously that the pattern that should be followed. partly I also want to embody the bible verse in my email signature which is “Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. - Colossians 3:13”
it made me realize that to love someone is takes a lot of effort, my personal standard of what is right and wrong cannot be my gauge to assess what is to love. that makes my love ‘conditional’ and not ‘Christ-like’ sometimes though when friends tell me what people say about me at the top of my head I try to think of what dirt they have and the nerve of them to even mine. Then again I let it pass because I didn’t want get worked up with what people think about me when I know there’s a God who sees me for me.
in one of Steven Furtick’s talk that I listened to last week he said that we are sometime busy assessing what other people’s assessment of us are, that is so true, for all we know, we don’t even exist in these people’s reality or maybe we do. if we do, I go back to Cycle Two of America’s Next Top Model, where Tyra Banks said that “people will always talk about people” and well it really depends on what place the talk is coming is comeing from, is coming from a good place, a bad place or a chatty place?
so I’ve decided to let people be people and let me be me… whatever I hear, whatever I see I’ll just let pass, I do know that there will be conflict that I can avoid, should avoid and cannot avoid. if the time comes that I would need to confront anyone, that would be the time when I feel really wronged by them… but I can lash out all the time… if I do then sorry, cmon, not because I a go to prayer meeting I’ll always act and respond in grace. I human and I will commint mistakes that I will be sorry for and bear consequences of.
in one of Steven Furtick’s talk that I listened to last week he said that we are sometime busy assessing what other people’s assessment of us are, that is so true, for all we know, we don’t even exist in these people’s reality or maybe we do. if we do, I go back to Cycle Two of America’s Next Top Model, where Tyra Banks said that “people will always talk about people” and well it really depends on what place the talk is coming is comeing from, is coming from a good place, a bad place or a chatty place?
so I’ve decided to let people be people and let me be me… whatever I hear, whatever I see I’ll just let pass, I do know that there will be conflict that I can avoid, should avoid and cannot avoid. if the time comes that I would need to confront anyone, that would be the time when I feel really wronged by them… but I can lash out all the time… if I do then sorry, cmon, not because I a go to prayer meeting I’ll always act and respond in grace. I human and I will commint mistakes that I will be sorry for and bear consequences of.
what I do not know is even if my road is rough and i stumble sometimes I will move forward bruised, wounded and scared but nonetheless victorious.
honestly, I intended to write something else… then I remembered a preacher saying that anything would better not be documented. so whatever that negative thing I really wanted to write about will be expressed in a different channel.
honestly, I intended to write something else… then I remembered a preacher saying that anything would better not be documented. so whatever that negative thing I really wanted to write about will be expressed in a different channel.
carpe diem... ü
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