When approached with reproach, rebuke, and correction, I take it very much to heart. I might throw out a few "but... but... but" if the concept is really foreign to me. However, I always take it to heart. Sometimes it takes me only a few hours, other times it can take much longer. I spend time meditating on it, searching scriptures, praying, and seeking counsel.
I like to approach these things like Jacob did when he was told to leave his home and enter the land of the Egyptians. It went against all that made sense to him to go and enter into a land that served other gods and engaged in idolatry and other ungodly things. He still humbled himself and said that he would consider what he was told. He asked God and found that it WAS God's will for him to go there despite the fact that it just didn't make sense.
If you look at the entire picture, Jacob and his family were provided for through the famine that came because of His obedience to God in this. If he would have just went with what made sense to HIM, he and his family would have suffered through the famine.
This is why I do my best to always seek the Lord on these things. I think this is also relative to the proverb that says that open rebuke is better than secret love.
I have had to learn to discern the difference of when someone is ministering correction with love and when someone is being condemning. Usually (if not always) the first includes instruction, while the latter just leaves you feeling hopeless in not knowing what to do.
Maybe this is more of a testimonial than something interesting about myself. I think it could be a mix of both. Anyways, I just wanted to share.
I like to approach these things like Jacob did when he was told to leave his home and enter the land of the Egyptians. It went against all that made sense to him to go and enter into a land that served other gods and engaged in idolatry and other ungodly things. He still humbled himself and said that he would consider what he was told. He asked God and found that it WAS God's will for him to go there despite the fact that it just didn't make sense.
If you look at the entire picture, Jacob and his family were provided for through the famine that came because of His obedience to God in this. If he would have just went with what made sense to HIM, he and his family would have suffered through the famine.
This is why I do my best to always seek the Lord on these things. I think this is also relative to the proverb that says that open rebuke is better than secret love.
I have had to learn to discern the difference of when someone is ministering correction with love and when someone is being condemning. Usually (if not always) the first includes instruction, while the latter just leaves you feeling hopeless in not knowing what to do.
Maybe this is more of a testimonial than something interesting about myself. I think it could be a mix of both. Anyways, I just wanted to share.
