i'm tactless

Categories: forty-blogs-of-lent

Tags: God, Church

Date: 28 February 2012 01:26:49

Forty blogs of Lent

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Real Life church one morning: In the sermon we heard about someone had been approached by a bishop with the question, "Where are you with God," and how that sounded a tactless question. And yet that question stayed in the ladies mind, which eventually led to her coming to faith. Later, during the peace, I was briefly reminded how years ago I asked a lady if she knew Jesus, to which she had responded that she knew about Jesus. Yet a tactless comment like that was used by God. I'm not saying we should all be tactless. There are a lot of tactful people in churches, and when the Holy Spirit uses them, he uses them in tactful ways. There are also a lot of nice people in the churches, who the Spirit uses in nice ways. And there's me. I wouldn't say I was one of the nice guys, and I'm certainly not tactful. I don't fit in to any of the Christian stereotypes. Yet there have been odd occasions where God has been active despite my lack of tact. Actually I was amazed to hear this, it happened over 25 years ago. I've only just been told. Over the years between I've grown older and supposedly wiser. And I have taken on board the advice I've been given and tried to be more tactful. (Being less tactful would have been harder.) Yet in all these years I've yet to be thanked for saying something tactful which helped someone towards God. It's only when I'm being myself that God uses me. There's a sermon in there somewhere.

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Originally posted on 11 June 2006 on St Pixels blogs.