Do you ever feel like you need to make sure that someone who hurts you knows they hurt you? I’m assuming we all feel that way. I know I most definitely do. After all, God gave us a mouth for a reason right?

Just last night, Steven lied to me. I know. I’m a woman, we know everything. But you get this gut feeling like, “uh yea you’re not being real with me”. He’s in jail so our conversations are strictly over the phone and an occasional video visit. Instead of arguing with him last night, I decided to just sleep on it. Thinking this morning when he calls I will tell him I know he’s a liar, I don’t appreciate it, and to not call again until he can be honest.

During my alone time with God this morning, he’s like “nah girl we ain’t doin that”. The Holy Spirit convicts me, when Steven calls I am to tell him how good of a man he is. I am not to remind him of how he failed and how I just know because I know. It isn’t my responsibility or burden to change Steven or fix him. I get to love him.

Many times we want to make sure someone knows they hurt us, because we believe that will keep it from happening again. We use darkness (my mean words) to take away the darkness (lies). In reality, only love can do that. I encourage you today to speak life into someone or a situation that you would much rather just punch in the face or cuss out. Tell them how good of a person they are. Allow God to convict them instead of you.

Isaiah 42:16 – I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.