My man kindly, lovingly pointed out something in me that concerned him recently. And to be honest, I didn’t like it. I got defensive and felt that smirk come across my face. Instead of taking it in humility, I wanted to list the things I saw in him that needed a touch of Holy Spirit revival.
Hi, I’m Lara. Meet my flesh.
Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother’s eye.
Matthew 7:4-5
But like only a tender Father can do, God convicted me. Not with a hammer, though I need a hammer at times, but in love. He graciously reminded that pride only leads to soul destruction.
So I apologized to my husband and remembered what I learned long ago — though failed to put into practice with this recent interaction.
The honorable thing to do when someone points out a possible weakness or area of sin in us is to simply say, “Thank you for telling me. I will pray about that.”
And then actually pray about it. Because what if God is speaking.
Fill me, Lord…
How do you respond when someone points out your weaknesses?
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Ouch … I needed to hear that today. Thank you for sharing a (probably difficult to reveal) part of yourself in order to encourage those of us who need to learn the lesson too. From my email, I read every post you write but rarely take the time to come to the website and post. This one just hit that close to home. Thanks again 🙂
Thanks! We’re all in process. All of us. Praying you are encouraged in Him tonight. He’s so gracious to call us righteous.
Hi Lara
I really dont know how I ended up on this page!
But I honestly needed to read the words you shared here.
Thanks
God Bless
Thank you for sharing, this exact thing happened to me last week and boy was it hard to swallow, I was not quick to point out how the words had hurt me, although I did tell my husband later that I was deeply hurt at what he said. However, after much reflection I found his words to be true and swallowed them (all be it very very difficult) and began praying about them and taking them to heart.