Reading Oswald Chambers' book

Studies in the Sermon on the Mount

There is one little paragraph that I'd like to share today, it is this:

"Let people do what they like with your truth, but never explain it. Jesus never explained anything; we are always explaining, and we get into tangles by not leaving things alone. We need to pray Saint Augustine's prayer, "Oh Lord, deliver me from this lust of always vindicating myself." Our Lord never told His disciples when they made mistakes; they made any number of blunders, but He went on quietly planting the truth and let mistakes correct themselves."

When I had the chance to go out witnessing with my friend in Spokane, I would see him practicing this concept every day, he would always be sharing the gospel with people, and he would be available and ready whenever other people would ask him questions, and he was ready to help whenever I had questions too, but he never needed to explain himself, because he wasn't there for himself, so he just kept on planting the truth.

It's my prayer that God would make me that way whenever I'm called on to be a witness of the truth!