encoraging? or discouraging?

I just want to share my experience as an imperfect person. Lately, it has been a very interesting holiday for me, I met a lot of different and unique people and was able to hang around them. I was able to hang around with the people that I rarely went with, and I was glad that I did.

I just want share about mistakes and how people handles mistakes and how God handles mistakes in my life. To be honest, and I don’t think it’s even necessary for me to be honest, because it’s so obvious already, that I am not perfect. I do make mistakes and forget about things that I should or should not do. And so does millions of other people. But the difference with making mistakes without God and with God is immeasurable.

As everyone knows, I work in McDonalds, and I see people makes mistakes so many times that if I try to remember them again, it’ll make me bald. And I as an imperfect human tend to get angry at those who made the mistakes. I get impatient, telling people and yelling at them when they make mistakes, and I, many times, says hurtful and insensitive things to those people.

But then, when I think back, I too make mistakes, grave mistakes like the ones that I just said. And those mistakes may seem to other people as normal, a crew trainer- trying to train her trainee. But as God’s children, someone that had been saved, forgiven and always forgiven with grace, how can I be so impatient, so uncaring and so insensitive to others.

I just want to share this with everyone and ask everyone too, to think about this. We, as Christians, why is it so easy for us to think that we are better than the other? To judge others, and say that what they are doing is wrong! Whereas God Himself, are so patient to us, so forgiving and so loving. How can we, the ones that are forgiven and loved be so unforgiving and unloving towards others? Not just non-Christian even to fellow brothers and sisters?

So next time, when we are about to rebuke someone or just “encouraging” them, think about this:

1. Do we do it ourselves?
2. do we know that person well?
3. do we care and truly love that person?
4. why do that person need encouraging/ rebuking?
5. does that person really have a close relationship with God?
6. do we have a close relationship with God?
7. do we do it out of purity or out of nothingness?
8. is this for selfish gain or for the other person’s benefit?
9. does it really benefits the person?
10. do we ask God’s guidance before doing this? Or we think that we are better than God, that we have to do it ourselves?