“The soothing tongue is a tree of life,
but a perverse tongue crushes
the spirit.”
Proverbs 15:4
One day this week as I left the house to drive my son
to work the sky was gray, overcast and cloudy. As we approached his workplace about
7 miles away the sun was breaking through the clouds and as I looked up there
were patches of blue sky evident.
The change was welcome.
How much more welcome is the change when we learn to
pray or speak into someone’s life the blue skies and Sonshine rather than the
ominous gray clouds.
After all, isn’t that how God most often speaks to us
in His word?
He speaks to us as He sees us – through the filter of
His Sons’ completed work – and not necessarily where we are at any given
moment.
Let our faith in others be inspired and informed by
that example.
It is easy to pick out another persons’ faults and
point them out or even ‘pray them out’.
It’s a bit harder for us to see, by faith, a completed
work God is doing in that person and speak it out to them or pray in that way
for them.
We let our thoughts of them (and often even of
ourselves) be ruled by the clouds and overcast skies in their life and not by
the breaks of ‘Son light’ shining through.
Commit today to ask God to help you see, speak and
pray for others as He sees them.
It may just break up some clouds in their life.
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