Listening As A Disciple
Dear Friends, Have you ever felt inadequate when it comes to speaking into the lives of those around you? When they come to you for some words of comfort, support, advice, do you worry that you won't have the right things to say to them? Do you believe that you're not the best person for them to be talking to? Do you compare yourself with others and think they really should be speaking with so and so because they always know just what needs to be said and how to say it? I admit that there have been plenty of times when I have felt just like that. I have believed that I just don't have the wisdom to know what they need to hear and have thought that they would be better off speaking with someone else. I have found great encouragement in a particular verse from Isaiah: "The Sovereign Lord has given me his words of wisdom, so that I know how to comfort the weary. Morning by morning he wakens me and opens my understanding to his will." Isaiah...