How do we get to know ourselves and the context of others using God’s help?
How does that work?
It works in that God does not allow us to rest on our self-justifications.
God gives Himself as someone we can come to know and to trust through the Spirit of Christ that quickens us.
This is the foundation of our connection with God, and results in our sincerely wanting—and seeking out—His counsel and guardrails.
In being our wisdom, He is most forthright.
His expectations are not for expectations’ sake: they are for our, and everyone else’s, sake.
When we are tuned in with God, we can then manage internal assumptions and motivations as they pertain to us personally, and outwardly as they pertain to others.
That’s when the perception of the past and the people in it grows objectively clear, and we discern the present and future realistically (as opposed to how we wish, imagine, wrongly perceive, or feel peer-pressured to interpret that it is).
That’s how how we get to know ourselves and the context of others, and close the book on the past in such a way so as not to repeat its motivations and mistakes going forward.
Copyright Barb Harwood
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