Hard Lessons

As I laid in bed last evening, tossing and turning...."don't you hate that?" I was dead asleep just minutes before in my favorite recliner...but now...thoughts of frustration fill my head...You see, I get the privelege of teaching a Young Adults class most every Sunday morning at church...and whereas I feel as though what God lays on my heart is vital, and very important...I often come away each Sunday with feelings of frustration. There's always this 'few' who seem to be at the root of my frustration...oh they know all the right 'jargon', the 'right' verses and stories, but where are their hearts? They giggle and whisper, even roll their eyes at me, or on account of me, showing no respect at all...then at worship time, they get asked to lead our worship time of praise singing...therein lies my struggle...now I'm supposed to lay all this aside and properly come before my Lord and worship Him! My bride reminds me...often I might say..."you can't be mad the kids, it's their parents fault"...she's right!...and yet, well I'm sure you catch the gist of my dilema..."Hard Lessons!" "Hard lessons" I think it was Ruth Bell Graham who said: "it's not my job to change Billy...it's my job to just love him!" How often do I long for others to see things as I do, to 'feel' as I feel, to do as I want them to do...? Silly man, "it's not my job"...I'm just to love 'em, and pray for 'em! "This is my command: Love each other." John 15:17                                                           Or stay in John and check this one out...

For greater love has no man than this, than a man will lay down his life for his friends (Jhn 15:13). Jesus said: "That's the kind of love I have for you. I'm going to lay down My life for you to prove My love. And this is the way I want you to love one another, with a self-sacrificing, giving love, where you will lay down your life for each other." ...."Aw jeeeez Lord, there you go again, turning around on me....regardless of how others treat me, regardless if I'm right, my job is not to change those few young adults, my job is to just love 'em, like You've loved me!" ....."Hard Lessons" indeed....Help me Lord"