Do you ever find yourself trying to be
so diplomatic, so reasonable to people who don't share your views,
that you don't say what you truly think?
I have been realizing lately that I do
this with some frequency. Example: I have a conversation with a
sibling about people for whom change seems impossible. Whether it is
that their temperament is such that they don't want to change, they
are stuck in old habits, or they just haven't shown any signs of
progress, my sibling suggested that they were hopeless. If I
understood her correctly, she was saying that they were hopeless
because they weren't capable of change.
I nodded and said that I understood
what she meant and agreed somewhat about change being very difficult.
What I thought immediately but took me
a painstakingly awkward amount of time to get out is that I thought
our analysis was missing something – Someone – crucial. My life
(gulp) is centered
around Christ and my hope is in Him and in having a life after this
with Him. I firmly believe because I have seen it happen
that people can change at any stage of life, even if they are not
capable of it on their own. I believe that Christ helps make that
change happen and gives people hope if they let Him.
I
didn't say that right away because I was nervous about her thinking
that I was insensible. WHICH IS RIDICULOUS because I think my faith
is completely sensible, reasonable and real.
As I
drove away, I kept coming back to the phrase from the popular hymn:
“I know my Redeemer lives.” I know
my Redeemer lives. Not I think He possibly does and I'm open to some
other options. No. I know it. As a fact.
Sigh,
sometimes its hard to recognize that I still have a long way to go.
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