Move closer, tilt your head, extend your neck to see
Have you ever had someone point out something wrong that you did but since you found no fault in it, you defended your position or your reasoning on the matter? Or you assumed that they were unreasonable, jealous, or malicious? Especially if the source of the information has a history of hurting you in the past, or any other negative experience with them in the past.
What if it was God speaking to you through them? Did you know that the enemy will discredit the source of God’s instruction to you so that you may disobey and be destroyed? There is a scripture in Proverbs 14:12 (NKJV) that says,
“There is a way that seems right to a man,
But its end is the way of death.”
This was me. There was a rebuke I kept receiving from someone I had bad history with that I disregarded it as jealousy and even wondered, ‘how is it even possible for someone to think like that?’ I would say to myself. My intentions and actions were not wrong in my eyes. Little did I know that when you refuse to move your feet closer to the person or tilt your head in their direction or extend your neck toward them to see through their lenses, you would remain blind to the truth they have.
My Holy Ghost Impartation Ministries family and I have been praying to be led of Christ alone, to be hot and not cold. So, a few days ago, as I was at home off from work I stumbled onto a YouTube video which was dictated by AI, not even a real human being. This was the same message the human was telling me repeatedly and I ignored it every time. This time, I saw what Christ saw and His truth exposed my nakedness and shame. I was doing dishes at the time, and without wasting any time I put them down and ran to obey at once and be right with God. If Christ would have come back in my ignorance and arrogance, I would have missed heaven. Wow! I had been looking through false lenses for years!
Dare to step out of your comfort zone and believed truth, to see God’s truth in every situation. I then decided that I will always take every word received, whether good or bad to God for His truth to be revealed. I was wrong for too long until I asked Christ to empty me of everything that is not like Him and of Him.
Lord Jesus my savior and deliverer, may all who pray the prayer I prayed be delivered forever from the evil which has disguised itself as good in their spirits, souls, mind, heart, and bodies to the glory and honor of your name. All of you, none of us, that we may be dead to self only alive in you. Dead to sin and alive in righteousness. In your name we ask and believe that we have received. Amen.