Come Let us return to the Lord – 07

How can I say that God is good without discouraging my neighbour and how can I speak on God’s behalf without sounding unfeeling and cold? How can I carry water and fire in the same hand?

How can I give counsel that things are going to get better when God says they will get worse? What is true encouragement?

I’m learning that to encourage is to speak as the one who prepares the way for God to come in. My work is not to make my neighbour happier but to prepare him for the visitation of God.

I’m learning to be as Elihu was to Job – prepare them for God to speak.
God must be able to speak after I’m done.

I look to You, only You who make the weak strong
I look to You, only You who know all my wrong
Come live in me
Breathe in me
Reveal Yourself in me
Make me alive in You