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Others get to decide how I will come to them. It is their actions that determine that. Will I come as disciplinarian? Friend?
My job is to love. That love could come in the form of “tough love”. Everything I do should be in the motivation of love. I discipline my children out of my love for them. If I don’t, I turn them away from God. God is love.
It is other peoples choice how I approach them. May they make the right decision. May I respond in love.
So how should I prepare to come to you? As a severe disciplinarian who makes you toe the mark? Or as a good friend and counselor who wants to share heart-to-heart with you? You decide.
~Apostle Paul
Wow if you only knew how my day was yesterday and how this fits to the former inmate we are assisting! 🙂 !
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I can only imagine. Have a blessed day. God is with you mighty man of God.
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