Most of my life, I\u2019ve been known as being sensitive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDon\u2019t tell her that; she\u2019s sensitive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOh you know, she\u2019s just sensitive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cGirl, you\u2019re so sensitive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Eye roll. 🙄 The thing about it is they were so right. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I would cry about everything, at least it seemed. Anything involving someone being mistreated, getting their feelings hurt, or having to say goodbye, etc.\u2014here come the water works. As time progressed and I matured 😉, tears were shed at kindness and sentimental things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although I\u2019ve toughened up a little bit\u2026my family still pokes fun at me. Maybe even to the point of seeing who would be correct in guessing when and about what I will cry.🙃<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I find myself thinking: Man, buck up, girl! Why do you have to be so sensitive?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite my natural proclivities to sensitivity, I am learning that there are benefits to being sensitive, spiritually at least. When we are sensitive to Holy Spirit, first and foremost, we learn so much of His nature. We become sensitive to His will. We become sensitive to other people\u2019s feelings. We become sensitive to the Word of truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cFor the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.\u201d<\/em> (Hebrews 4:12 KJV)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Now you know I like to talk about the rhema (uttered) word and the logos (written) word.⚔️ When we spend time in the written Word, we become sensitive to how God speaks so much so that it becomes rhema\u2014as if God is speaking right to us. Right where we are. We have to be sure to stay sensitive so we don\u2019t miss it, though.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When we allow ourselves to be sensitive to the things of God, we are actually discerning what the Lord wants to reveal to us (or others even). We have to be sensitive to His direction and correction. This is how we mature in the faith. 💪<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sensitivity to His presence, for me, often produces tears (go figure! 😏). Now, it doesn’t bother me as much. When I think about His goodness and all He is to me, how could I not cry??<\/p>\n\n\n\n However your spiritual sensitivity comes through, just know that it certainly has its merits. 🙌<\/p>\n\n\n\n ~mnm <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Most of my life, I\u2019ve been known as being sensitive. \u201cDon\u2019t tell her that; she\u2019s sensitive.\u201d \u201cOh you know, she\u2019s just sensitive.\u201d \u201cGirl, you\u2019re so sensitive.\u201d Eye roll. 🙄 The thing about it is they were so right. I would cry about everything, at least it seemed. Anything involving someone being mistreated, getting their feelings…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,5,13,48,12,24,4,23],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-advice","tag-counsel","tag-holy-spirit","tag-sensitive","tag-spirit","tag-truth","tag-wisdom","tag-word-of-god"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/areadywritersink.com\/mnm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-2023-07-31-at-6.19.03-PM.png?fit=1096%2C202","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/areadywritersink.com\/mnm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/areadywritersink.com\/mnm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/areadywritersink.com\/mnm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/areadywritersink.com\/mnm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/areadywritersink.com\/mnm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/areadywritersink.com\/mnm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"http:\/\/areadywritersink.com\/mnm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/areadywritersink.com\/mnm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/areadywritersink.com\/mnm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/areadywritersink.com\/mnm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/areadywritersink.com\/mnm\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}