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Dr. Crabb states that if you adopt the vision/goal stated above, “you will give up depending on your own competence. You will give up the pressure of having to make it happen, because you will know that you are out of your league.” How will knowing and believing this change the way you approach SoulCare?
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It will help to keep me focused on who the “focus” should be on– not me but the only provider of life our Savior Jesus Christ.
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It will keep the pressure off of feeling like I have to have the answer to everything or the natural pressure I may feel to fix someone else’s problem. Who is sufficient for these things? No one and that is why we have to leave room for the Holy Spirit to guide the relationship.
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We are often made to feel as though we should have an answer for everything. Knowing that I am out of my league will help me to know and understand that I do not have to have an answer. God is in control. Believing in the vision can assist in everyday life by not being restrained to find a solution that will help other with life’s obstacles and to continue walking beside them.
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In knowing that I am not relying on my own competencies but that if the Holy Spirit allows me to not be burdened to find the right answer for the person. I can just sit with them in their circumstance and/or feelings waiting for the Holy Spirit to guide them to God’s answer for their problem. I can model God’s heart for them and maybe ask questions but I don’t have give them a plan. I can stand in the gap as God does the work. I can just be present for them and open to how the Holy Spirit wants to work in their soul.
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It’s an amazing thing to consider over all of my life the ways and people that God has used to continually draw me to Himself.
To keep in mind when I am turning my chair toward another that God is fleshing out their story and using me as He will.
Remembering that I am weak but He is strong. I trust His Spirit to guide, protect, comfort and reveal. To give Him thanks for the opportunity to grow with and love another perhaps through thorny ground reminds me that I am His child and He is my faithful, good Father.