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Given the reality that troublesome passions will be present with us always, on what do you base your hope that you can become a powerful provider of SoulCare for others?
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I base my hope on believing that Christ in me can move past the self-centered passions to help others.
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Troublesome passions will always be present within me, but I base my hope of becoming a powerful provider of SoulCare because of my curiosity in people. Along with a strong curiosity in people and through the power of the Holy Spirit who lives within me, prayer that activates the Spirit and his Word that guides me, I am very hopeful in caring for others in a way that will help them see all that God has planned for their mortal lives and beyond.
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That God will work in me, in spite of my weakness and inadequecy. I really need His help in everything.
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2 Corinthians 12:9-10
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Though my impure motives has cause many opportunities to go sour, With mindfulness, being fully aware that I am a broken human being and fully surrendering. 2 Corinthians 10:5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. Knowing that we cant and He can. I believe that the more we realize our lack of and fully surrender, the more powerful of a soul care provider we will became due to God working in and through us. -
Actually the continuing presence of the grungy passions reminds me that I am not the capable one. I see my weaknesses and my sins as reason to reach for help. I have more hope in God because I see him reaching for a dirty , damaged soul like me. If he will reach me, knowing me, there is hope that he car reach the one I am talking to, and there is hope that he can redeem my efforts especially if they depend on him and show him as the powerful sufficient one at work. I certainly don’t always live there, but I do see God’s good ness highlighted agains my sin.