why am i so lame, or for that matter, why are we all so lame?when faced with a confrontation i squirm like gollum.
that's me->
i am currently in the process of working up the courage to confront two people in my life. one of them is my neighbor above me, who tends to forget that ash on a balcony doesn't make my wife happy, (the other will remain nameless until confronting has taken place.) it's been happening for 2 months now, i've walked by his room once, and even braved up the courage to knock on his door once...thank God he didn't answer or I would have had to of talked to him. two things would happen if i grew some balls and talked to this guy. my wife would respect me and i wouldn't have to write stupid little blogs about the situation anymore.
the thing i find myself thinking about most when i'm afraid is what do i say? if any of you know me, i'm not the most talkative of guys and have never had a case of diaherra of the mouth, however i do have a blog...we'll see how it goes. i'm so afraid of looking like an idiot, and being proven wrong that i completely forget about Christ.
Jesus tells us "Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds!" Luke 12.24
I find this verse almost sickening in times like these. i am more valuable than a bird, more valuable than anything on this earth and yet why do i think i'm nothing? i'm only something because God feeds me, yet when i start to get hungry again i forget where my last meal came from.
how easy it is to ask for prayer, advice or just talk to someone else about the third party than it is to just do the thing you're asking for prayer about. don't get me wrong community and prayer are both wonderful things and very necessary for a saint to perservere, but couldn't we save a lot of people a lot of time and energy if we'd just man up and trust Christ and the access to strength we have through him? the war is over.
i pray that anyone reading this would find strength and courage in Christ and nothing else to face the ashers from above in the future. the following is a quote from John Piper
"But Jesus does not call us to make safe choices. He calls us to make loving choices. In the short run, love is often more painful than self-protecting conflict-avoidance. But in the long run, our consciences condemn us for this easy path and we do little good for others. So let’s be more like Jesus in this case and not talk about people, but talk to them, both with words of encouragement, because of the evidences of grace we see in their lives, and with words of caution or warning or correction or even rebuke.
