Amongst you

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I can appreciate subtlety in matters with a sensitive nature. It is important to approach with gentleness the object of distress. Furthermore one should ease into words with a quiet spirit and voice, as though not to overwhelm the listener. There are words that when spoken too loudly will be too harsh to the heart and thus will bypass it, taking no effect, planting no seed. The words, like balls, will simply bounce over onto dry soil.

There is a time for everything, but for everything there is a certain way. Each situation calls for something else. There is no formula that guarantees success. There is often a simple prompting, and given the unique situation, it calls for that prompting to be put into action. That prompting, if it comes with the Holy Spirit, is just that: holy. It is intended for application. It is intended for a higher purpose than the mundane routines of earthly life.

The force of nature is great. And yet there is a force greater than this. And we often see it as less. We see it weakly. We see it faintly. But in fact, this force that drives us to be good, to seek nobility rather than pleasure or grandeur, is the force of God. The simple will to do good which we often suppress by our nature is in fact the higher calling. It is the more precious way of living. It is the more fulfilling way of living.

Why bother, you ask, because once you enter that place, that place being the Kingdom of God, you will feel such a love and peace and fulfilment that you cannot turn back to what you knew as fulfilment before. There really is nothing greater than to be in the presence of someone holy, especially if that person is not a stranger to you. Not a stranger. He is among you. Let Him be amongst you.

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