Consider today’s teaching carefully. Typically, after we have started living on the Spiritual Basis it becomes easy to avoid the obvious negative mental entanglements that come our way. However, I do not think we ever become immune from “stealth” attacks. These fly in under the radar concealed in a conversation with a friend or loved one. Since they have a special place in our heart, we want to agree with them, to help, to be on their side, a good friend and are slower to steer the conversation towards God because of the relationship for as the Bible teaches it is hard to be a prophet in your own town.
As soon as we become aware that we have drifted from the path, perhaps agreeing with something we know is unbalanced spiritually or perhaps even engaging in a little character assassination to demonstrate our support, gently in silent prayer we center ourselves, pray for all the players involved and ask God to be shown the way of patience, tolerance, kindness and love. Our tone will immediately change and so will the conversation. Let’s be clear here, our hope is always to add to, to improve a situation but the other person may not appreciate the change and even accuse you of siding against them, such is the price of awareness.
If the conversation has ended and you become aware later that you were more “busybody” than spiritual sounding board, clearly pray for all but additionally check with your spiritual adviser and see if you owe an apology. There are few hard and fast rules in life but here is one: We can never save our own skin at the expense of another either by commission or omission.
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