WHO NEEDS FIXIN?

 I have a friend who loves to tell you, "Be careful what you pray for."  We all laugh each and every time she warns us, but this might be flawed theology.  This assumes God is Santa Claus in the Heavens waiting to grant our every wish.  I think not--THANKFULLY!

Did you like the title?  I really work on taking the twang and colloquialisms out of my speech, but I really struggle with that lazy speech pattern of dropping the g in fixing.  It is literally out of my mouth without me ever thinking.  BUT for the sake of all my English teachers from the past, I DO KNOW the word is fixing---not fixin.

NOW on to the point~ when we pray---and we are struggling with another---do we ask God to FIX him/her?  (See how I tied the first two paragraphs neatly into that one sentence?  Do we automatically assume we are in the right---and God should work on the other party?  I dare say--that is our natural inclination, BUT are we willing to recognize perhaps we might need fixin?  Are we open to God working on us?  There are times in life---we have to admit the only thing we have any control over is ME.  Maybe--they need fixing-but God is in control of that not us.  When we pray are we willing to ask God to change our attitude if He deems we need change?  Can we humble ourselves and truly pray for God's will to be done?  Food for thought today---

"You were taught,

with regard to your former way of life,

to put off your old self,

which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires:

to be made new in the attitude of your minds;

and to put on the new self,

created to be like God

in true righteousness and holiness."

Ephesians 4:22-24

SIDE NOTE--I LEARNED THE ART OF RUN ON SENTENCES FROM THE MASTER WRITER OF RUN ON'S - PAUL.