Ping
Always a good reminder. If only this simple truth could be chiseled in our minds and burnished in our hearts, so that as we go through the day we don’t forget.
We often feel we did something wrong when things go against us, we may feel we did or failed to do something for God. But the spirit, the voice that is telling us we deserve punishment because we are somehow ‘bad’, this is not the voice of the Lord speaking.
When we let our ‘self’ die and allow the Lord to reside within us, we are perfect. Any spirit or voice telling us otherwise is trying to pull us back away from God.
It depends on how they come across.
Pompous and arrogant gets one method; gentle and seeking gets another.