Me: Howdy Prodigal!
Prodigal: I am having fun in this Banyan tree! There are all these limbs that are curvy and straight, skinny and thick.
Me: Looks like fun, I know the curvy limbs are better for climbing but I have some insight today about how straight can be better.
Charles Spurgeon gives us insight into helping others with the Word of God.
There is nothing so cutting as the Word of God. Keep to that. I believe also that one of the best ways of convincing men of error is not so much to denounce the error as to proclaim the truth more clearly. If a stick is very crooked, and you wish to prove that it is so, get a straight one, and quietly lay it down by its side, and when men look they will surely see the difference. The Word of God has a very keen edge about it.
We forget that God is inside of all of us who has Jesus Christ as our savior. The Holy Spirit is clearly able to sense error more then we. We do not need to add much more with the Holy Spirit. Sometimes it is about just showing up with that straight stick and being beside the crooked one.
Hebrews 4:12
For the Word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edge sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
Jennifer Van Allen
www.theprodigalpig.com
www.faithincounseling.org
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