When there is relational conflict, is waiting a copout?
I would say that sometimes it can be, but there comes a point where we have to realize that even if we’re ready to move forward and heal with someone, we can’t force healing and readiness in others.
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I sat across from her pleading with my heart and eyes to offer me a different answer. She could not. She confirmed what I had been hearing from God in my prayer time:
“Wait.”
Me: “I want to, but I can’t offer peace in this situation.”
Person offering me counsel: “Why do you think that is?”
Me: “Because I didn’t take it away in the first place. My actions did not cause any of it. They need to seek peace through and with Christ. Until they surrender that, I cannot offer what they seek, and I don’t want to go ahead of what God wants to do in each person’s heart. Besides, I would only screw it up since I do not have His peace to act on this right now.”
Person offering me counsel: “Then that’s your answer. You’ve prayed. You’ve sought godly counsel. You’ve daily surrendered this. You are so right to not go ahead of the LORD. He cannot be rushed.”
And that settled it in my heart—what, in many ways, I already knew:
#WaitingOnGod in a situation does not equate to abandonment.
— Bonnie Lyn Smith (@BonnieLynSmith) March 14, 2017
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