My Friend Who Often Corrects Me

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I have a friend who corrects me almost every day. When I’m going astray, He calls me back. When I’m being unkind, He reminds me to show love. When I’m rising up with pride, he calls me aside and reminds me how frail, fallen, and fickle I am. When I’m broken hearted, he picks me up, brushes me off, and leads me forward with hope.

I want to spend all my time with Him and that’s easy to do because He is both invisible and omnipresent. No matter where I go, there He is, waiting for me to interact heart-to-heart with Him. If you’ve read any of my blog posts, you know His name. It’s Jesus. He also has a title, Christ, which means Messiah, the Anointed One, our Creator who became a man to redeem us from our rebellion and adopt us into His eternal family.

This is what my friend is doing in me: I love to continually experience the demonstrative presence of Christ and His redemptive process working in and through me. He causes me to see life differently and many people think I’m a fool. But that’s okay because the fruit that Jesus produces within me fills me with His healing balm and restores my soul.

Christ working in me is beyond anything I could ask or imagine. He bypasses my mind and my desires. He continually takes hold of my heart and tenderly twits and reshapes it to His will, breaking the thought patterns that have held me in bondage. It’s a life-long process. He never stops boldly and lovingly showing me where I’m off His track. He re-tunes me to set aside my cherished discordance so that I can better sing His song in harmony with His living reality and with His will.

Jesus passes beyond my mind and my analysis so that I can directly experience His still small voice speaking within me and connecting me heart-to-heart with Him. As my chains shatter and fall off in Christ’s presence, I often weep the sweet tears of being stunned by His supernatural compassion.

When I ride
The inner tide
Of my pride
I collide
With reality.
But when I let
The risen Jesus
Speak inside
And be my
Inner guide,
He leads me to
His humility.

I was strongly rejected yesterday by someone I love dearly, and God has been showing me it will work for my good and for their good. I was just sharing that concept with my wife. Then I came to FB to post this revelation that came to me: “To abandon pride is the key to peace,” and the first thing that I saw was this prophetic post by a Facebook friend I don’t know in person, “The rejection was for your redirection.”

When people manipulate you into silence by making you fear giving your honest opinion, true communication ends because you no longer have the courage to humbly and lovingly speak what you really believe. When people are secure in who they are, they don’t try to silence or intimate (or block) people who disagree with them.

To give someone who loves you the ultimatum, “Either agree with my behavior or get out of my life,” is cruel. However, when the body of Christ gathers regularly to connect heart-to-heart with Jesus and with one another amazing love and power is released through the presence of Christ flowing through all (not just one) of His assembled followers.

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