Correcting Me

This month's memory verse has been really hard for me to deal with. It's really
about finger pointing, or maybe about speaking before you put your mind in gear.
Go to Luke 6:41 and you'll see what I mean.
"Why do you see the piece of sawdust in another believer's eye and not notice
the wooden beam in your own eye?"
What a rediculous picture this paints! I see a barn beam in the way as I"m reaching
with tweezers to get that little speck out of Bob's eye. God has a lot to laugh
about watching us. He is the only one who is perfect.
I've sat through a lot of sermons mentally correcting everyone I know. You know
how this works. As I listen to the ideas I should be taking to heart for myself, I"m
saying "Bob should listen to that." or "Mom should hear this." Never once do I
let those little God bullets get me. I should be hearing them ricochet off the pews
beside me!
The one person we must deal with first is our first person-me. Lent is a special
time set aside to do just that, to study and pray so that God may finish the work He has begun in you.
Words are too cheap, too easy to spit out in anger, or percieved wisdom. Pray in
all you do. Walking the walk should come first. When you pray listen for His answers,
allow God to correct and perfect.
Read Acts, chapters 1 & 2 for the stirring account of what prayer played in the
early church. Yep, that's where all the power comes from to change the whole
world one soul at a time.