I am another person with opinions and ideas, thinking they are great while realizing they my not really be as spectacular to you as I believe they should be. Like many people, I have a family and a job. I also believe in the one true God of the Bible and wish my witness to that belief was much stronger, but my opinions and ideas usually get in the way. Rather than always thinking about how Jesus would handle a situation (the old WWJD), I usually react instantly with what I believe is right. Guilty of overreacting or reacting without grace or love, I'm working on better ways of dealing with people, trying to realize we are all (including me) failures to our designed purpose of glorifying God. Instead, we are self gratifying creatures, at least most of the time. I want to be a stronger Christian man, filled with the prompting of the Holy Spirit, rather than the desires of my own heart and my opinions as a sinful, imperfect creature. It's hard, especially when I don't read the Bible enough to really know God's character, promises, provision, and grace. I don't know my God the way I must to be a stronger witness and a more patient man. As I begin to understand God's grace more, I understand the depths of my own sin. If I can realize what He's forgiven me for and saved me from, I hope I can better realize the forgiveness I must offer others, and then turn my life toward loving them rather than being annoyed and frustrated by perceived incompetence. My own incompetence in my Christian walk is so much more a failure than any worldly failures. "Life is hard and then you die." But is life hard because of sin or because of the work done to avoid sin? I want to be a better man. To do that I must become a better Christian. A follower of Christ, although not an easy task, has rewards beyond worldly comprehension. I pray God fills me with the Holy Spirit to guide and direct me through the distractions of this world, focusing me on Him in my pursuit of holiness.