I know I have far more to learn in this world.. but Jesus showed me the one
thing I needed to know most of all.
After writing my last document, and revising it from "we" to "I" in most
every spot, Jesus really dealt with my heart.. and showed me how much He
really loves a contrite, broken, tender, soft, maleable heart.  And that's
when I learned what I needed to know most of all.
In this world.. it can get very easy, for one reason or another, to try and
help people.. but forget about ourselves.  We try and help others who are
there.. even try and fix them, but to no avail.. for really, though we give
all the advice in the world, we can't help those who don't want help.. and
this includes those who don't want to listen to Jesus.
Yet, we must also remember, that often when we are reproving someone for a
direction they are heading in, we may be getting a little too fault-finding
and forget that what is most important is our own heart attitude.  I know 
that I have had a great deal of difficulty in this area.. and am grateful
for any help you ppl give me.. to help me keep my eyes on myself.  
I did read something in Oswald Chambers' devotional "My Utmost for His
Highest" which kinda hit me.  
I was reading the devotion for June 17, when I noticed that He said that
whenever we saw a mote in our brothers' eye, it was because we had logs in
our own.  And I know that it is true.. whenever we start focussing on the
teency weency faults in our brothers.. that we aren't focussing on our own
heart condition.. for teensy faults really mean nothing.  Yet I also know 
that we can't just be quiet when we see logs in our brothers' eyes.  And
this seems to be the problem...
I have definitely had times when I got confused about just what a log was
and just what a mote was.  I mean.. I wanted to help my brother so much,
that I just wanted to pull out all his faults and get him on the right
track.  But of course, as the Bible shows.. my heart was wrong.  I was
trying so much to help others and fix others that I neglected the most
important part of our experience with Jesus -- Him.
Jesus made it very plain to me.. with quite a Word which He gave me.  It
basically went like this.
"You've been focussing on trying to help everyone and everybody."
"You, get your own heart right with Me."
"Then we'll work."
This fits right along with what He's having me do in my life at this moment.
He pointed to a job in the paper, and things have been flying since I
applied for it.  Instead of trying to get the world jobs and hoping they'd
support me, I need to focus on getting my own job, so I can help them get
their own jobs.  And in the same way, we need to all.. every one of us..
depend on Jesus' being Himself in everyone's lives.
And that, my friends.. is where it all ends.
If we all want unity.. if we all want peace.. if we all want the world to go
in the best way possible.. then we all have to do exactly what Jesus pointed
to in the first few sentences of chapter 7 of Matthew's telling of life of
Jesus:  Get our own hearts right first -- THEN we'll see clearly.
Now some might say we can't get our own hearts right.. and they'd be right.
We can't do it.  It's only by letting Jesus into the deepest parts of our
hearts.. and convict us of the areas He still needs rulership in.  He wants
all.. all of our hearts.. and everyone.. to be under subjection to Him.  And
this means a lot.. we truly have to *die* to ourselves -- to our own wants
and needs.. and simply trust God for them.
Now.. for those of you who think this is so difficult, I have written the
next section.  I have spent quite a few years of my life trying to learn
just what the right thing to do is in this world.  I've tried pleasure.. and
it always left me wanting more.  I've tried power.. and it was a farce..
I've tried relationships.. and they always left me empty.  I've tried food..
but I either got sick or was always hungry.  I tried many things.. from the
mundane to the elaborate.. from the painful to the overwhelmingly blowaway
pleasure-filled.. and nothing.. nothing kept me filled and not wanting more.
Nothing that is.. except my relationship with Jesus.  Even seeking wisdom
left me empty and brainless.  Nothing got me at peace.. like Jesus Himself
did.. when I spent time with Him.  And really, that's one of the funnest
things you can do on this planet.  Just spend time with Him! :)
This, along with the other part -- standing on who Jesus is.. on God's
tenets.. and watching them work in your life -- watching as though the
storms of life buffet you on the left and the right.. and totally sweep over
you.. you stand on something which seems to be water to others.. a
relationship with a man you cannot see, who loves you beyond all things..
and who stays you in times of trouble like nothing on this planet.
It's written of throughout the Bible.. how God's people stood on His own
Word.. and that's it.. on God's direction.. on God's desires.. regardless of
wisdom (as is written of in the book of Joshua about the battle of Jericho).
We need to be focussed on our relationship with God, and do just what He
tells us to do.. regardless of human wisdom.  Yet, we also need to *use* the
wisdom God set in order to do things on this world.
So.. where do we go from here?
Really.. that's up to you and God.
Do you want to go where no man has gone before?
Tough!  Won't happen. :)  That is..unless you want to travel to the greatest
place in the world -- your deepest dream.  Maybe... just maybe.. God has a
little plan for you.. which might just rival the plans you have.  Give Him a
chance.. you have nothing to lose. :)