It’s a very expensive business trying to be the CEO of other people’s lives. It costs us our peace, our joy, our contentment. And then pays us in frustration, bitterness, chaos, anxiety, and ultimately defeat. Learning how to live in contentment with letting our relationship with the Creator speak while our mouths are 🤐 is a lifestyle most believers fail to master. Usually we aren’t even striving to live that way bc either we don’t agree with that lifestyle as a goal to which we should be aiming or bc we don’t even know it’s available to us as a method of living. We’re so caught up in being our idea of what a missionary looks like. But ask yourself this - are your methods conducive to shalom? What are you battling in your thought life? How often are you battling those thoughts? Now, are you content with your answers? If not, what can YOU do to leave behind the frustration and live in contentment? Are you willing to change? Are you willing to stop trying to be the voice in other ppl’s heads? Are you willing to lay down your fleshly attempts and allow the Holy Spirit to unleash His power in that persons life? He’s knows how to do His job. We want to help Him out, but in reality the ways in which we endeavor to help Him are usually inept and inefficient at best and hindering at worst. 🙇🏻♀️ His ways are not our ways. His thoughts are high above. Concern yourself with your own relationship with God and leave other ppl’s relationships with Him alone. Ppl got problems! But far too often we can be found jumping into their chaos and trying to force feed their scurvy ridden spirits. All the while we are somehow blind to the fact that they won’t open their mouths! We cannot solve their problems in spite of our sincere desires to do so. When ppl are ready to partake of the fruit the Holy Spirit is producing in our lives they will come to us. Until then we need to concentrate on our own personal growth. If we don’t have mature ready-to-eat fruit bearing in our lives how will the hungry know to come to us? #treesaresilent #fruitofthespirit #mindyourbusiness #godsgotthis #poweroftheholyspirit #letpatiencehaveherperfectwork #zipyourlip #stopforcefeeding #missionarylife
