Are people better off having been with you? This is more than simply making sure that you don’t negatively affect people. This is also about positively affecting people. And that includes modeling repentance when you’ve done it wrong. Can people grow if they take your examples? Do you affect people in a godly way? This is not just about avoiding certain things around certain people. This is also about whether or not your life teaches others how to properly process, prioritize, and proportion actions, decisions, responses, and situations.
In other words, does your life teach prudence? Does what you do model and teach others how to live a godly life? Teaching prudence is not teaching avoidance; it is teaching the timely and appropriate application of wisdom. Knowledge is what to do. Wisdom is how to do it. Prudence is when to do it. Even though we won’t do this perfectly, we can do this purposely. And that is how you help people learn to discern, and to repent, and to grow.
“Living For Today With An Eye For Tomorrow”©
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