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HOW YOU TREAT PEOPLE IS TIED TO YOUR SPIRITUALITY… Think about it.

You can pray every morning, quote Scripture all day, attend every service, fast until your stomach growls, and shout until your shoes come off—but eventually, your spirituality has to show up in how you treat people.

Because spirituality isn’t only demonstrated in how you communicate with God. It is also revealed in how you handle the people God created.

“By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.” — John 13:35 (KJV)

That’s powerful because Jesus didn’t say people would recognize His disciples by how loudly they worshipped. He pointed to love.

How do you treat people when they cannot do anything for you?

How do you speak to someone when you’re irritated?

How do you handle someone’s vulnerability after they trusted you with it?

Can you celebrate another person’s blessing without becoming jealous?

Can you disagree without becoming cruel?

Can you apologize when you’re wrong?

Can you extend grace without making someone beg for it?

Can you remain kind when there is absolutely nothing in it for you?

That’s spiritual too.

Galatians 5:22–23 describes the fruit of the Spirit as love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and temperance. Notice something: most of that fruit becomes visible through interaction with other people.

You don’t discover how patient you are until somebody tests your patience. You don’t know how much grace you carry until somebody needs some.

You don’t demonstrate forgiveness until you’ve actually been hurt. And kindness means considerably more when you could have chosen otherwise.

That doesn’t mean allowing people to mistreat you. Boundaries and spirituality can coexist. You can walk away without humiliating somebody. You can say no without being nasty. You can protect your peace without destroying somebody else’s.

And here’s the uncomfortable part:

Sometimes we want God to judge our intentions while we judge everybody else by their actions.

We say, “God knows my heart.”

Yes.

And that’s exactly why we should want Him to examine it.

💌 Grandma’s Corner

Don’t become so spiritually impressive in public that you forget to be spiritually accountable in private.

How you treat the waiter matters.

How you treat your family matters.

How you treat your friends matters.

How you treat the person who disappointed you matters.

Even how you treat somebody you no longer want in your life matters.

Because you can know Scripture and still need character development.

You can have a gift and still need growth.

You can be anointed and still need correction.

And sometimes the greatest evidence that God is working in you isn’t what happens when you raise your hands toward Heaven.

It’s what happens when you lower them and reach toward another human being.

“And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise.” — Luke 6:31 (KJV)

Your spirituality should eventually become something other people can feel in the way you treat them.

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