“A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.”
– Proverbs 15:1
Today, I want to share how being aware of what people are going through and being sensitive to their pain enables us to love as Jesus did. I want to talk about how we can become a life-giving presence in relationships with others — be gentle. In our world, it seems that we have gotten more and more harsh with each other. Whether in politics or religion, people have become violent in their rhetoric and language. When we get in a fight with our spouse or get angry at the guy who cut us off in traffic, many of us tend to respond angrily and with a mean spirit. However, this is not helping us as a society. Even as we are forced to function in an angry world, there’s one important thing to remember: hurting people hurt people. The ones who have the roughest exterior are typically the most fragile souls; they need someone to gently care for them and to love them just as they are, not as they should be. Friend, be gentle in your debates and tell the truth, always. The enemy works through deception and the Lord works gently through the truth. There is an allure to gentleness. As Philip Yancey said, “No one ever came to Jesus through losing an argument,” so use your head and connect with others on the level of their heart. When you do, Jesus will be evident in and throughout your life! |
Prayer
God, I pray that you will make me gentle, like Jesus. Refine my words and guide my actions so that I reflect your heart in my relationships.
Reflection
Do you think of yourself as a gentle person? If so, how has this helped those around you? If not, how can you cultivate gentleness?
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3 Responses
Gentleness is a very timely message. Sometimes Jesus had strong rebukes for His disciples. But it was for gentleness in the end. James and John wanted to destroy a whole village that opposed their message, but Jesus said to leave those people alone. These “sons of thunder” learned to tone-down their response to those who rejected them. This speaks to those on social media who “go nuclear” in their rants. Jesus shows a better way.
Hello Bobby
Thank you fir this message. I needed to let it guide me this week. GOD Bless you and your lovely Family.
Shalom Bobby Schuller and community,
thanks for the sent words.
The meaning has been summed up softly by you.
The hardness injures, destroys and kills.
In the hardness nobody can be with all creatures one.
In the usage life Today as the hiesege existence becomes a form named this can be the truth?
In the font is from the tree of the life to eat (or to eat in other words immortality) and not from the tree of the knowledge (earthly physical transitoriness).
As well as you it wrote it is to be thought indispensably about itself after and then to act from the heart.
Also to announce You according to the following words by order ABBAS.
sedately everybody is the terminator point for the insanity in this world this could see in the sky
the birds will fly from the east after west at the midday close like a tape
this year preserved the third stone, it will be Saturday in 11.
then only two stones and it happen softly and the insanity is finished.
Then to questions gives with pleasure the words.
Full days to You.
the David