James 3:1
Those of us in ministry know what it is like living under a magnifying glass: what kind of car you drive, what radio station you listen to, how you educate your kids. Sometimes we feel the line between private and public is a glass wall. Should we allow people's opinions to shape our own? No, especially when one person will say You're Too Liberal and another call us Too Conservative. We need to be careful that our decisions are made as we follow God's heart and not in striving to do what is popular or pleasing to man. And it's there that we find the judgement that really matters. It's so easy to fall in the trap of worrying what your "people" are thinking that what God is thinking. The next time someone holds up that magnifying glass - instead of complaining about how it's Not Fair, let's respond in grace and kindness and truth in love knowing it's just part of the job... but let's carry it further in our hearts and minds and let's ask God to search our ways.
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