24 June 2014; Mat 7:1-13

24 June 2014; Mat 7:1-13

Lord I started with a need to just come close to you. In all I do I want to wait for you.

In my trade, let me pray before I enter. In my work let me present the things I need to do to you first. Jesus be the center of my live. Let me have a heart to heart transformation. Soften my heart and renew it.

Indeed the most important thing is to connect heart to heart with you, with my family and especially my wife and sons. Let me have a close heart walk with you that I may be able to share heart stories with them. Let me show how real Jesus is to me.

Today text is on judgment. It is not against correction - correction with love. It is about condemnation without the intent to correct. do the correction out of love - not out of anger too. It is about the action and not about the character of the person.

Scolding out of love turns into anger and turned into condemnation. What then is then solution?
Ask, and It Will Be Given “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! (Matthew 7:7-11 ESV)

Prayer. Indeed the more we scold for the "sake" of the person turning from bad to good, god offer prayers. We cannot be on any moral high ground and neither can the person always "appreciate" the scolding or the judgment. Do it in love but more in prayers.

Lord let me be one that really spend time praying and seeking God for my family and for others. Through a genuine heart of love and concern.

Pray. Prayer changes things. Let me be one that pray for all members of the family in and for all things.