http://rexkeener.com/2009/12/10/people-who-lift-and-people-who-lean/ Ponderings of a Teacher Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:01:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://rexkeener.com/2009/12/10/people-who-lift-and-people-who-lean/#comment-231 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:06:06 +0000 http://rexkeener.com/2009/12/10/people-who-lift-and-people-who-lean/#comment-231 To the concept of a lifter always looking, I would only add that the lifter is always ‘listening’. My experience has been that I need to focus on what someone is saying to me (or not saying) in order to be able to ‘lift’ them up. As God has many, many times listened patiently to me (sometimes I complain) and then has lifted me up out of some very dark times. He then unexpectedly allows me to hear the need of someone else and then use what He has done for me to lift up another. Why in all honesty He chooses to use me in this way from time to time is a mystery to me. It is only through His grace and mercy that He sees something in me that He (when I’m willing) chooses to use. I am humbled when this occurs, and I rejoice that I have this privelege to help another person; whether they are a Christ follower or not. Again, from my own experience, I do not know how He might be using any ‘lifting’ I do through His power to draw another person to Him. I firmly believe that one day I will know, when I see Him face to face. To Him be the glory and honor.

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