I have been saying over and over in this series that people matter to God and they should matter to us. But lest we fall under condemnation or exhaustion or both I need to say that while all people matter we cannot invest time in all people or invest time in some people all the time.
The needs of others will always outstrip our ability to help and solve. But we can always point to the One who has unlimited power to heal, save, and deliver.
While we never give up on people, some people will require that we walk away from them. Some people are toxic and for the sake of others we must go on so that we can maintain our own sanity and remain emotionally healthy to help others. In that case all we can and should do is pray for them and entrust them into the hands of the One who can correct, enlighten, and liberate.
This also means we need to protect our hearts from the self-righteous and ignorant who will criticize our "unloving" attitude. We stand before God and not those who do not know our hearts or the paths we have walked with the one we now walk away from for the sake of their healing and our usefulness to others. God is just and He will vindicate us.
2 comments:
Needed to hear this. It really hit home for me. Thank you.
Keep you head down and your powder dry and let God sort it all out.
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