“Obviously, I’m not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ’s servant.”
Galatians 1:10 NLT
Pleasing people is not what Jesus did. If we follow Him, neither do we. However, we are called to walk as He walked. He was not unnecessarily rude but He did not compromise. When we was with those He was sent to seek, heal and restore He was kind, but not always gentle. I remember the 10 lepers, only one, who was a Samaratin, returned to thank Him. Jesus asked bluntly, ‘were not 10 healed but only this foreigner returns to say thank you!’To heal a blind man He used spit to make mud, and then sent him to wash. We would expect a kind person to not put the weak to such distress. However, there was a purpose in it.
Smiths Wigglesworth was not always gentle when he prayed for the sick, he would punch them where the disease was, claiming he was not gentle with the devil. He was definitely not a people pleaser.
Let us be mindful of the balance between kindness and deliverance. Unless it is God, don’t go punching people. We might end up in jail.
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