conflict......

Over the years there has been something that keeps coming to mind. It is something that is not the profound. Okay....are you ready......I stink at this whole being a Christian thing. I constantly struggle, I do stupid things, I don't pray or read the word enough, I hurt people around me, I am prideful, I often care more about what other think than I do about what God thinks, and there is always to be something that I need to work on. But thankfully God puts amazing people into my life.
I am very grateful for the friends and mentors that I have in my life that are willing to sit down and speak the hard truth to me. Many times I don't want to hear, but I NEED to hear it. God uses the people around us to make us more into His image. Even though it is very tough sometimes, I praise God for friends who show me where I fail. I desperately need people like this in my life. I think through all this God is showing me why I need him. I am not supposed to be good at being a Christian. That is why we need Christ. I cannot live a day in my own strength. As soon as I do, sin happens. I need to immerse myself in the grace and strength of God. I pray that God would give me grace to walk in his strength and be a person who points people to Christ. As strange as it might sound, I am thankful for conflict. When conflict arises, God often uses that to show me the sin that I cannot see in my life. God, thank you for people who are willing to speak that hard truth into my life.