I really, really, really try to follow the rules – traffic rules, game rules, the “Golden Rule”, even unwritten rules – and it really gets my goat when someone else CONTINUALLY goes through life IGNORING the rules. I ask myself constantly, “Why do you care?” The child inside me answers, “BECAUSE, IT’S NOT FAIR!”
It’s not fair that I behave and “so-and-so” can get away with doing whatever they want to do. But the thing that really gets me is this: We both are open to the same privileges in life. How can that be?
Funny thing… tonight I was doing a devotion from Psalm 23 –
1 The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not be in want.
2 He makes me lie down in green pastures,
he leads me beside quiet waters,
3 he restores my soul.
He guides me in paths of righteousness
for his name's sake.
I paused at “He leads me beside quiet waters…” I couldn’t get past that part, and it made me wonder if God was trying to tell me something. Maybe I needed to be “quieted down” and quit worrying about how other people are walking along the crooked road, and just keep myself on the straight and narrow. My “job” is to take care of ME! Unless I want others to put me under the microscope – Well, you know where I’m going with this…
All I know for sure is, I am not capable of seeing everything in anyone's life but mine, everyone has their own circumstances to deal with everyday, and it's not my place to judge anybody. Plus, after all is said and done, I believe I’ll keep my eye on the narrow road and not on “so-and-so”.
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