CONFRONT WITH KINDNESS

II Timothy 4:2 Preach the word; be diligent in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.  4:1 I charge you therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;   (KJ2000 - sent from CadreBible)

It is quite natural, and even spiritual to feel some sort of heaviness when we see a professing Christian following the ways of the world.  And our 1st impulse is to go straighten them out like a hot comb...in the mighty name of our LORD.

Such methods are seldom successful, selah. I THANK TOZER FOR THESE WORDS(slightly modified by me)

Usually such methods don't B3ARFRUIT is because the heat of our spirit is not from the Holy Spirit. I have only once felt the righteous indignation of God fall upon me prodding me to respond, and I did. It was the most interesting feeling, which I will not go into much detail on, but it reminded me of Pentecost. It pushes you forward and restrains you simultaneously. Most interestingly enough was the outcome, because I had previously GONE OFF on people before in an "spiritual" way and as Tozer notes "it can very well do more harm than good." Well this time it ended up quite well, I found out the other person was a believer and they were focused to rethink their own actions. Now back to Tozer As in everything, Christ is our perfect example and a prayerful face-down meditation on the life of Christ will show us how to oppose with KINDNESS and reprove with CHARITY. The power of the Holy Spirit will enable us to follow His blessed example. The baptism of the Holy Spirit will ALWAYS bring a spirit of LOVE...and....SWEETNESS and CHARITY. (The action of love)