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WHISPERS TO AND FROM THE HOLY SPIRIT

Help Me See You In Your People

Lord, I find you in
everyone and everything.
Help me see you in people
who want to do me wrong.
Show me how I recognize you
in others who are angry at me.
How do I remain in you when
someone uses me
over and over again.
Let me be aware of you
in my physical spiritual
or financial difficulties.
Teach me how to testify
to your goodness and see
you in an estranged family member.
Know that I want to choose
to see you in every aspect of my life.
For if I  didn’t then the only thing that
remains and all that comes against me is evil.
Open my eyes, ears, and my heart
that I may recognize your presence
in everything and everyone.

Dr. Don’s Reflections

It is so easy for me to be kind and non-judgmental to those I like and do me no harm.  But it is a different story when people come against me whether it is my fault or not.

In this Whisper, I am asking something huge from the Lord. I am asking to see good and treat people well that want to do me harm in some way or simply do not like me. In a worldly state, it is so easy to blow someone away if they are not seeing things the way I see them. So here I am asking the Lord to show me how to see him in everybody and everything. Or show me how I should treat someone mad at me or someone who uses me. I am even asking for the grace to treat appropriately an estranged family member in the light of God.

Why do I have to ask for the light of Christ to do these things, it’s simply because in my human and earthly way I would most likely want to treat these people badly. “Well the heck with him” or “I am done with her” or “No way will I help that person again”.

These are all human reactions which come quite naturally but I am uncomfortable with these human feeling and thoughts. I do not want to live and breathe with corrupt feelings about people for any reason. However, the human way tugs me in that direction and I do not want to go there. Thus in this Whisper, I am asking for instruction on how to treat people as Jesus would.

Jesus gave us the Holy Spirit to teach us so I am asking the Holy Spirit to tutor me beyond my human reaction to a spiritual dimension that may be painful on a human level but a spiritual level will bring me peace.

I have been walking with the Lord long enough to know I want to see and feel his presence in everything and everyone. I know I will fail at doing this more than I care to admit. I will never stop asking Jesus through the Holy Spirit to grant me his grace in recognizing Jesus in all things and all people. Please Lord grant me this grace.

Dr. Don’s Comments

I think you know what I am describing in the above reflections.  We all have people and things that come against us and you know as well as I do what unpleasant situations it creates.

Think about people you know that have come against you. They have done you wrong in some way by stealing from you, talking bad about you, and challenging you in many ways which causes you to react.

Now stop and think about how you reacted. Most likely it is a predictable human response of some kind like anger, revenge, or wishing bad upon those coming against you.

You may think you can find satisfaction in these responses but it is very unlikely you will. These human retorts bring about unrest in your soul when you realize how badly you feel about having a less than a Christ-like response.

If you become angry at people or you come against them with revenge you know that is not the way of Christ. And if you do not feel bad about your human reaction then you need to check where you are in your walk with Christ because something is not right.

You are human and you have your falls but every fall when you are walking with Christ should fuel a desire not to fall in that area again. You should seek all the grace you can from God to respond in a spiritual way above your lowly human reaction. This will lift your soul and fill you with the forgiveness and grace of God through the power of the Holy Spirit,

You have to live your life on a human level and in a world filled with evil.  But spiritually you can rise above your human tugs and react in a Christ-like manner not using your strength but his