Are you having a hard time with someone at work?

So here’s my thought for today: Luke 6 says, “⁴¹“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? ⁴²How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when you yourself fail to see the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”

You know when you are having a rally hard time with someone in your life, like a co-worker, a family member, a close friend or neighbor, and you are absolutely fed up with dealing with that person…so you finally turn to God? How do you pray? “Dear God, please change so and so into a person who is kind and loving; or Dear God, please change their heart; Dear God, change this person to a good person, etc., etc., etc.,

Here’s my thought about this passage and it’s application in prayer: We are not supposed to judge others but examine our own hearts. I think the same is true in prayer. A men who is like a spiritual father in my life said we are to never ask that God changes their heart first, but to pray that God would change our heart. And I thought about that for a while and I think it makes sense. Sure, we want God to change the hearts of others. However, we should always ask that the change of heart comes for us first. And in that heart change, maybe the patience will be given to deal with it.

Just a thought.