And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ–to the glory and praise of God. Philippians 1:9-11
When we were travelling and my hubby was driving, I had a little issue of not having a clear view of the road. I’m sure he thought that wasn’t a bad idea because if I couldn’t see, I couldn’t “help” him, but it drove me a little nuts.
Before we left, the guys decided to clean the inside of the car, and it looked great! One problem…the cleaner that was sprayed onto the dash, misted onto the passenger side windshield leaving lots of spots. It happened even when the spray wasn’t being directed there!
Whoever was driving could see perfectly fine, but the passenger (when at a certain height) had some troubles. We had to use cleaner to fully remove them because if we just used a rag, we would’ve had a smeared mess worse than the spots.
People are a little like that windshield. We could be in the presence of someone who shoots out some words that aren’t very pleasing and that we may not even agree with, but it reaches us. It can leave some sort of spots. Just like the windshield, they stay there until dealt with. If not dealt with, they leave some unattractive marks that sometimes we aren’t aware of, but those talking to us are. It doesn’t look to good on us.
If you think those around you can’t affect you because you’re too strong to allow anything that others do touch you, just give a kid a hose and see what happens. You’re not taking part in any type of game or encouraging the child to turn the hose on; however, you quickly have water dripping off of you. You didn’t have anything to do with the hose, but you need to dry off! It affected you didn’t it?
I pray for insight and discernment to come upon you when in contact with anything that could spot your windshield! Be careful not to spread those marks by just wiping them around, but fully treat them with the wisdom that comes from God above. I want you to be pure and blameless…and streak free!
