THE HEART OF THE RIGHTEOUS

Proverbs 15:28
The heart of the righteous studieth to answer: but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.

I have had the privilege of being able to share God's Word with a whole lot of people.
I do not count it lightly.
I don't just write on this page five days a week so that people can agree with what I say and like me.
I pray for people who have to be liked at all costs, because if you are doing God's work everybody ain't gonna like you or what you say.

Either you want everybody to agree with you or you want the truth to be made known.
You will be offended if what you are doing is for you.
But if what you are doing is being led by God you will be able to take correction and instruction.

God only corrects those whom He loves.

Be careful who you allow in your ear, because anyone who is agreeing with you all of the time just to keep you happy doesn't care how your outcome will be.

I'm speaking from a heart of love and experience.
You can be friends with all of the ministers, pastors, prophets, evangelists and teachers, but if you can't tell your friends and family the truth like you tell everybody else, you are jacking your people up.

We have wise and foolish everywhere including in the body of Christ and it should not be.

We have to be for real with our selves.
You can't help folks if you can't hear what they are saying.
You are not helping family or friends if you can't tell them the truth when they are wrong.
It ain't about you and me, it's about getting God's work done.

Working in health care I have dealt with some real different folks over the years and it never shocks me when I come in contact with a patient who is very demanding of others yet for some unknown reason or a very well known reason (pride and arrogance) they have not checked their own behaviour.

You know how you run into Christians in public, folks from your church that don't know you or recognize you in a white lab coat, scrubs and glasses.

Years ago I had the opportunity to see folks just act nasty and just a plain fool at a reception desk in the hospital.

Not at Henry Ford Hospital for the record.

The patient was way late, putting the doctors behind but he wanted the receptionist to pass by all of the other patients quickly to accommodate him.
He didn't want to have a seat and decided because he knew one of the technicians, to ask for him.
Arrogant to the point of shame.
Like the ladies at the front desk were just scum on his shoe and of no help to him.

Well the technician that he knew was at lunch and if he was there he doesn't have power to override what the doctor has said.
This brother complained and stomped his feet and said that we should have called him earlier that morning to remind him like some other clinic does.

Like we are a wake up call service.
The ladies said if we had known that was a request of yours we could have done that.
If you like we will do that for your next apponitment, but we confirm all appointments the day before by placing courtesy phone calls to our patient homes.

It was so ridiculous how demanding he was of the staff when he hadn't placed any demands or responsibility on himself.

How often this is done.

Now remember he is a Christian, his whole family are members of a church yet with all of that church going he evidently didn't think that he should have to be patient.

This is the difference between having a relationship with the Father and just being a member somewhere.
When you have a relationship with God you ain't acting a fool in the line and jumping to conclusions, thinking the worst, and stirring up mess.

He believed patience didn't apply to him, it applies to everyone else in the line but not him because he was more important than all these other folks.

Honey Please!
"Do you know who I am?" was basically his nasty attitude.
I know that he was the one who was going to go through the same process as everyone else who comes in 45 minutes late.

And he might have had some favour if he would have come in with the right heart.

I am watching this from a distance and then his friend who works there comes back from lunch and of course in a huff he runs directly to him acting even more stupid.

I called the friend over and explained what happened and this friend knows our policy for folks who are 45 minutes to an hour late but goes on to make excuses for his friend.
I'm like baby, "I know that this is your friend and that is marvelous, but this is how this runs."

This is how the kingdom runs.
God is no respecter of persons.
You are not ushered up to the gate of heaven based on anything other than your faith in Jesus Christ.

It won't be based on who you hang with, or who you married, or where your momma work.

The quickest way to ruin a friend or a family member is when they are wrong you tell them that they are right.

If you love folks you tell them the truth.

Some folks call me brutally honest.
There is no such thing.

There is a lie.
And there is the truth.
That's it, there is nothing in between.

I thank God somebody loved me enough to tell me the truth.

It will bless your heart to take some time and meditate
Proverbs chapters 12, 13, 14, 15.

Take some time, the time that you would waste doing nothing constructive and just soak in God's wisdom.

It will bless you and grow you to the point where you are no longer offended because you believe it's all about you.

Love