Living In The Greys

Just an encouragement for myself on a crazy week...thank God we're half-way through.

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In the interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren, Rick said:

We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions? Popularity?

Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am
I going to be driven by God's purposes (for my life)?

When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if
I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You
better. God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more
interested in what I am than what I do.

That's why we're called human beings, not human doings.

Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.
Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
Every moment, THANK GOD.

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I thought I could just post these few lines of words of encouragement and just leave. But I just had a few exchanges with my colleague which left me feeling...I also don't know what I'm feeling right now...

Who am I to say what is right and what is wrong? Does standing up for the truth mean just vocalising our opinion of what is right? Or does it go beyond to enforce it? Should we turn in the perpetrator? What is our role of righteousness? Can we impose the standard on others with what we believe, even though we know for sure in black and white that it is the way to go? Yet, surely, each person is responsible for their own action, right? Like I'm writing this during office hours!!! :(

Or is everything subjective? So grey and ambiguous?

But whatever it is, I guess we should not be offended even if the other person turn a deaf ear to our advice and to their conscience...it's nothing personal anyway.

Mercy triumph over judgment...and I am not even the Judge. But we are called to be merciful.

I'm really no good with the greys...

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