Blog Post #3

The most recent time that my mentor and I had spoken together, we got into a long discussion about our spiritual lives and talking spiritually to others. I have struggled a lot recently with wanting to help others when they are in need by providing what God has spoken in my life. When Someone goes through a tough time I find the best thing to do is to turn to the word and to what the Lord has said in the past, however, I find sometimes that I don't know if I am really sharing a verse with the intent to actually help them or if I am sharing a verse because I know a verse and it makes me look better. My intentions have always been to help the other person, however, I still feel that it can be seen as, "He just shared that because he wants me to see him as spiritual." The advice that I received was some of the best that I have ever heard. My mentor had mentioned that it starts with my relationship with the Lord. Am I taking the time to be in the word and spend time trying to hear what God is putting in my life? If I'm not and I'm not trying to work on my relationship with the lord then when something like this happens, it is purely for my own personal gain however if I am actively trying to pursue a relationship with the Lord and I am Constantly spending time with the Lord than that is not for personal gain but instead a form of praise to God. It was very refreshing to hear this because it is something that I have really tried to wrestle with for a long time. Long before I even came to Wheaton, however, I feel now that I know what I must do to be speaking the word of the Lord into someone else's life. I am very grateful for everything that I have learned through this mentorship and I know that I will try and keep this mentorship going because I have learned so much over this semester than I have in a very long time.