Leading in Love

This week I read something on Honesty. It said you can be telling the truth, but honesty calls you to ask three questions. Is it the truth, is it kind, is it helpful? Honesty is truth with love. This is coming from a person that used to move in a way that people didn't like me because I told the truth. What they didn't like is that I didn't care how it made them feel. I had put walls around myself that I didn't have to worry about people leaving if I never let them in.

God has been pulling me into who he created me to be in the last few years. I have not felt comfortable moving in the way I used to. I have had to think before I speak. I have even got to the point that I am stung by people around me speaking to others without considering how it would make them feel. We are in a time were people need to be awakened to who God is and what Jesus has done for us. It isn't going to happen with us yelling scriptures a people. It is going to take us reflecting the love that God fills us with towards them.

I have been looking through my spiritual eyes when I have been out lately. There are things that I personally have a distaste for. Cigarette smoking being the top of my list. I have been called to help people that are doing that exact thing. Me doing what I am supposed to kills down the smell or maybe it is the winter's cold and how the wind has been blowing. Either way when you are being obedient the things that normally bother you are put aside. Leading in love is looking past yourself because what we are here for is bigger than us.

We have to move in a way WWJD. I'm laughing typing that because I know it dates me. What Would Jesus Do? We have to move in a way that reflects the one who saved us. We have the greatest intercessor. Jesus came and gave his life for us that we can be different. That God can see us different and hear us again. God moved in love, and it is our time to do the same.