Listening to Others

“Be completely Humble, gentle, and patient, bearing with one another in Love.” Ephesians 4:2

Sit With Them and Enter into their world.

Often when we enter into another’s suffering or struggles we try to drag them into our world. We want them to think like we think, choose what we would choose, understand what we see, and live more like we do. We want them to leave their depression, sorrow, and grief behind and “Get over It”.

 We can only help people by listening intently to their lives. We cannot talk them out of suffering, trauma, addiction or great grief. We must go to them, sit with them, and listen.

“Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights. No one said a word to him, because they saw how great his suffering was”. Job 2: 13.

Jobs friends came to comfort Him.  The best comfort was just to be there.  Not one word was spoken for seven days. 

Only after listening in silence can we little by little walk them to a closer walk with God.  Toward a new and different place. It is only if we humble ourselves and give of our time and energy that we can bring them into our lives and homes.  Why? So that we can eat together, become a family, to listen, to care, and to let the Holy Spirt speak.  Only then can a person experience the tender, healing, loving care of God.

Are you showing God to others by your attention to others needs?

Prayers for All

Larry