Friday, October 24, 2008

Nothing To Say?

I'm just curious but have you ever been in a situation where you knew God wanted you to minister or say something to someone and the excuse you kept coming up with was, "I don't know what to say?"

Or, "What if they think I'm just trying to cause trouble?"

Or, "I think this might damage our friendship/relationship."

Or, "How can I do this without seeming like a jerk?"

Or, "I just don't know all the facts so I'll wait and see if I'm even right about this before I'll bring it up."

Or, "It's late and I really need to get on home, or to bed, or off the phone, or...

It seems like we can come up with a TON of excuses NOT to say something doesn't it?

But why can't we ever see past the excuses and into the reason why God might be placing it on our hearts to say something?

Now I'm not just talking about the "bad or unpleasant" things that we might feel prompted to talk about but I'm also wanting to include the "positive" things as well. Things like words of encouragement and compliments.

It just seems like in the busy world we live in we tend to make time for things such as football and "lounging" but we brush by those little opportunities for lifting, edifying or just pointing something out to the people we love the most.

Have you been guilty of this recently?

4 comments:

  1. I felt like that Weds. I struggled really hard with satan. He (satan) didn't want me to say what I needed to say and God finally won and I said it. But man it was a struggle.

    You don't need to say that...it doesn't matter...they don't need to hear it...who are you to say that to them...

    Yeah all that goes through my head.

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  2. Wow, the call and the challenge of all believers- to go through life with the heart and mouth of Christ. I don't know about anyone else, but I often find myself wondering if I was too bold or said too much just as many times as I wonder if I said enough. Then, I often wonder if I said it with the correct motives, the correct attitude, etc. Balance is such a difficult thing to achieve for me :)

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  3. That's a tough one since I know first hand that sometimes saying the unpopular thing can end up making you the odd man out, but I think it takes a lot of maturity to be able to do the right thing and say what is needed, if even the person you are talking to doesn't want to hear it.

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  4. That's a tough one since I know first hand that sometimes saying the unpopular thing can end up making you the odd man out, but I think it takes a lot of maturity to be able to do the right thing and say what is needed, if even the person you are talking to doesn't want to hear it.

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