Letting People Be

Letting People Be


One of the hardest things for us to do, as I see it, is to let people live with decisions that you know are bad for them. I imagine all of our parents went through that, watching us like Ted Koppel & Donald Trump tried on hairpieces. They had plenty of choices and still decided on that which is hard to look at.


I suppose that the greater a person's penchant for control results in a greater pain from what others do. I read in a book called "the Calvary Road", Roy Hesson says we don't lose the peace of God over another person's sin but our own. For me, that can be what differentiates me from simply hurting for others and a recurring resentment.


It's interesting to me as to what kind of input we can have in people's lives. Being teachable is a critically important trait to exhibit as a Christian; one of the greatest pitfalls we can face is self-deception. One of the healthiest things we can do for each other is to have spiritual friends that we love and respect to keep us in check.


We read in Jeremiah 17: 9 " The heart is deceitful above all things, And desperately wicked; Who can know it? 10 I, the LORD, search the heart, I test the mind, Even to give every man according to his ways, According to the fruit of his doings.


I guess a good test to go by is this; have you ever made a decision that you felt was God leading you towards, only to find that it was a mistake? Did you do it, as you were young in the Lord? Midway or late in you're walk w/ Jesus? The bible says "1 Corinthians 10:12


Therefore let him who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall." This means Chuck, Pat, Amber, and Beatrice all need to have people in their lives that they respect enough to trust their input in the event that they miss something.


If pride is one of the most dangerous foes that we face, what checks and balances do we have in place to prevent errors? Am I teachable? If I am and someone close to you has been blinded, what do you do?


You pray and you pray some more and then you keep praying. And you let the peace of God that rules your heart like a referee's whistle trust in Him who holds our very breath in His hand. We trust in Him we cannot see physically w/ those that we can see in the realm of the unseen prayer. And we can know they're in the greatest most loving hands of all, our Father's.