Execute Justice and Love Mercy

He has declared to you, O man, what is good;
And what does Jehovah require of you,
But that you would execute justice and love mercy
And walk humbly with your God? Micah  6:8 

A similar experience of dealing with the serving ones after much deliberation and prayer was posted a few days ago. https://palmeichung.blogspot.com/2019/08/justice-and-mercy.html

These two cases of dealing with the serving ones in the way of life is a special training for me. For weeks I had been praying and considering how to handle this case without giving the enemy any ground to attack us in any way. Yes, there definite were mistakes committed by the serving ones; we all do commit mistakes. But the way I deal with the mistakes should not be another mistake. I should not give any room to the enemy while dealing with the problems.

A brother who has been coordinating with me has not done accounting properly for years. As we plan to clean up the accounts, many payments have not been recorded accurately, thereby creating debit balance to my clients. However, as we approached our clients they narrated their history of payment for their purchases which somehow was not taken into the record by the serving one concerned. Later, it was discovered that there indeed was a lack of clarity in accounting with many clients' account recorded as a huge debit.

This also is a big lesson for me. I have trusted the ones coordinating with me fully and hardly checked on them. I even told them, "We are co-workers serving together in coordination and I trust you fully." Even after this incident was exposed, I still do not lose my trust for the brother. Everyone makes mistakes; we need more learning and perfecting from the Lord through one another. I waited and waited in prayer until today to fellowship with him in love. 

As I fellowship with him, I gave him the ground to explain all that has transpired. He confessed that there indeed was a mistake from his side. Without me passing any judgment or needing to say anything, he himself agreed to make it up for all the mistakes he had committed. The Lord has already convicted him, and I do not need to do anything further. I simply have to amen what the Lord has already done. He also agreed to clear up all the misappropriation of funds in the accounts of the clients. The matter was solved right there; the Lord has already executed the justice due. And I also fellowshipped with him about the adjustment in his service that he would not deal with money matters any longer. His function has been fully transferred from distribution to full translation service. In this way, he still has his service. The Lord's mercy is still abounding. Later, we prayed together over the phone when he confessed all sins and asked the Lord for forgiveness. I amened the prayer and asked the Lord for more grace that we all could serve faithfully and be useful vessels to Him.

I do not follow the worldly way of  "Hire and Fire" policy. Whomever the Lord calls, He brings into His service, and whomever He wills to remove, He "fires" them. Without me taking any outward action, the Lord Himself works in the serving ones using their conscience and circumstances. My only responsibility is to echo the Lord's doing by amening whatever He has done. He executes justice, but He also loves mercy. To the unrighteous, justice will be executed, yet at the same time, the Lord loves His children. Even in executing justice, His mercy reigns. 

After a couple of weeks' waiting and prayer, and then fellowshipping with the concerned brother as He led me, I felt very relieved. A supposedly "big trouble" was handled in a proper way. Justice was executed, not by me but by the Lord Himself, and yet He was also full of mercy. No one is being "fired" in the process, but everyone is being disciplined and perfected to serve in a proper way. Praise the Lord!