Thinking clearly through the forest

^{It is easy to get caught up in someone else's problems .  My heart tends to be a "fixer".  What can I do to relieve their problem?  What can I do to make them see their sin?  What can I do to turn their heart?   What can I do to make them feel better?  (Not enough reliance on HIM to fix it...I have to do it... not smart).     Sometimes I am suppose to be a fixer...Sometimes God has called me to action, but other times I know God isn't calling me to do anything but pray.  That is when I have to make myself...just pray.    When you see someone you love ..doing things that you know aren't good for them.or .for their family.. you want them to see that, too.   But, they can't see the forest for all the trees.}    

^{That's when I try to do what God tells me to do (whatever action or inaction), pray for them, and love them as best as I am able.}    

^{1 Peter 1:13-35}

¹³ So think clearly and exercise self-control. Look forward to the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world. ¹⁴ So you must live as God’s obedient children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires. You didn’t know any better then. ¹⁵ But now you must be holy in everything you do, just as God who chose you is holy. ¹⁶ For the Scriptures say, “You must be holy because I am holy.”

¹⁷ And remember that the heavenly Father to whom you pray has no favorites. He will judge or reward you according to what you do. So you must live in reverent fear of him during your time as “foreigners in the land.” ¹⁸ For you know that God paid a ransom to save you from the empty life you inherited from your ancestors. And the ransom he paid was not mere gold or silver. ¹⁹ It was the precious blood of Christ, the sinless, spotless Lamb of God. ²⁰ God chose him as your ransom long before the world began, but he has now revealed him to you in these last days.
²¹ Through Christ you have come to trust in God. And you have placed your faith and hope in God because he raised Christ from the dead and gave him great glory.
²² You were cleansed from your sins when you obeyed the truth, so now you must show sincere love to each other as brothers and sisters. Love each other deeply with all your heart.
²³ For you have been born again, but not to a life that will quickly end. Your new life will last forever because it comes from the eternal, living word of God. ²⁴ As the Scriptures say,

“People are like grass;
their beauty is like a flower in the field.
The grass withers and the flower fades.
²⁵ But the word of the Lord remains forever.”