If we lead with grace
We may set the pace.
And to take no ill
Leaves the waters still.
Simply break the chain
Of your right to blame.
And a friend arrives
And the Gospel lives.
A friend at house church told a story of a remarkable reversal at her workplace. Swamped with tasks, she had asked a workmate for a helping hand.
The other woman snapped back that she was busy enough and wouldn’t be told what to do. This kind of task-sharing was intended to be the norm at the clinic.
Our friend simply apologized and quietly withdrew to handle the assignment another way.
Next morning she arrived to find the co-worker already in tears and admitting that “she had had no business responding in such a harsh manner.”
No problem. Perhaps a friend had been gained. Oswald Chambers, in remarkable nuggets of truth, has often encouraged us to give up our rights to be right.
