The year of shaking and thoughts on true fellowship

I've realised more and more that this is really a year of shaking for me.

God really wants to strengthen the weak areas in my life. This year, I've come face-to-face with the big issues in my life. I can't help but look back at the past 10months and go "Wow, so many things have happened!"

One thing caught my attention during the T&E class yesterday. I felt God tell me the need to keep standing upon the convictions and prompting of the Holy Spirit.

It doesn't matter what other people do. If God told me to stop doing it or start doing something, I must obey!!!

I think one thing the Lord has really convicted me of this season is my relationship with people.

I tend to put on different sets of glasses for different people. Some people get the "Everything you say is not credible" glasses, some get the "Too serious" glasses while some get the "Avoid at all cost!!!!!!!" pair of specs.

And I realised that everything they say or do is filtered through the lens of biases I've formed.

This affects the way I respond to people.

So I really want to learn to treat others with gentleness and respect, and season my speech with salt. Learning to put on Jesus' spectacles of love, impartiality and grace. More and more, I feel the need to be an edifier, rather than a discourager or more bluntly put a pain in the neck. True fellowship, speaking into one another's lives must become part of my speech!

Time to remove the specs and put on God's contact lens.