It is amazing how life changes the older one becomes. I was reading a prayer by an unknown author. The prayer went something like when I was younger I prayed to God and asked Him to change the world. In middle years I prayed and asked God to change those around me. Now in my latter years I pray and ask God to change me. Reading those words my spirit knew the truth of those words. Even in my latter years I, at times, am more concerned with God changing others than in God changing me.
What is even more amazing is how I can be so quick to find other’s faults and shortcomings and be blind to my own. All of this is why I need to be on my face before God asking for Him to change me. I need more a heart like God’s that loves all and devotes the majority of time to clean up my own life. When I think more deeply about all of this I know that the only person I can change is me. So, this week I am going to spend time alone with God asking Him to continue working on me.
March 10th, 2010 at 11:18 pm I pray for a Godly heart to and for it to be easier for me to forgive myself and forget it after I turn it over to Him. Not easy for me to do.