This summer I have run into so much pettiness. It is truly unbelievable how nit-picky we all can be. I suppose this has become a soapbox of mine which could very well be why I am noticing it continually. Everything from bosses finding fault in completed work to spouses complaining about their better half incessantly. Where does the pettiness come from? Why do people feel so entitled to carry this grudge against other people?
I think a better question is how can I keep from being petty! How can I guard my own heart against this basest of ugly qualities? I think when I allow my feelings to be hurt too easily or keep looking at a situation through my own eyes I will become petty. Who can really take a situation and honestly try to see it through another’s eyes? Honestly, we can really only see things from our own perspective and life-experience. Keeping that in mind, it makes it much harder to judge someone else.
How much better to love my neighbor as myself. Oh if I could only do that and so fulfill the law of Christ! Love is not self-seeking nor is it easily angered. Love always protects and always perseveres.
Oh Lord, let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, my rock and my Redeemer.
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