let me ask you. who is there in your life that you trust enough to have those kind of talks where the sparks fly a little bit and maybe the emotions get up a little bit and the conversation isn’t the most pleasant you’ve ever had. but on the other side of that there’s growth and change for both of you. who is there?
i’m not saying that every relationship in your life should be like this because you don’t have time to develop that kind of deep relationship with everyone. but are the few people in your life that you’ve chosen to have a relationship with like this?
somebody wrote, “a lot of us are hydroplaning over a lot of shallow relationships because we’re never willing to stop and take the time to go deep with a few.” that’s true. shallow doesn’t mean bad. they’re good relationship, people that you love. but you never take the time to go deep with the few, the people that you can trust to help you to move towards change in your life.
don’t think that these conversations have to be all nasty and negative and critical. that’s not how they are supposed to happen. the bible tells us in hebrews 10:24 (nlt), think of ways to encourage one another to outbursts of love and good deeds.
in order to help somebody to change, you’re not to be mean to them. that’s not what makes it work. you encourage them. .
look at what can happen. when you encourage someone like that, it encourages an outburst of love, an outburst of doing the right thing.
can you imagine that? you and i have the power with a simple word of encouragement to somebody to encourage them to incredible new heights of love, to do the right thing like they’ve never done before in their lives – just through one person talking to another person. that’s how powerful this can really be.
just a thought from the front porch…
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