Be quick to forgive and patient, even if it takes long. Understand that when challenged, it’s because Satan wants to create conflict. We should resist falling into that trap. He will use our loved ones to push our buttons by their actions and words. Sometimes continuously, so we can pray out loud and invoke the name of Jesus crying out for his help. But stay steadfast to the precept above them all, that is love and requires understanding of which we pray for daily.
Compassion entails being kind and calm in the midst of a storm. It means teaching how to improve by growing closer to God who corrects our ways, rather than making them dependent by doing it for them. Always help if asked even if we feel they should know better. It means to forgive without limit, even if it has been years.
We bear it all, endure anything, and are relentless in the hope we find in God. We put aside our needs, to help theirs. We do what it takes to help them feel understood, consoled, and loved. Be willing to expose evil for their own good in a gentle way. Assure them you are the one who will not change, but grow and always stay.
Give them hope for a better tomorrow by exemplifying that Jesus is the best way, and be the one who brightens their everyday. Have compassion for the blind and those astray; it’s not a happy place. We all know, we have been there. Share the love, and show them how true peace is only found once in a relationship with God. At best, for them, always pray. 11/17/21 #InspiredByTheHolyGhost #
