To avoid frustration with others, be careful with placing YOUR expectations on how closely the management of their life mirrors yours. Instead, insulate yourself by accepting that their way may not be YOUR way (in the same way that our ways are not God’s way—Isaiah 55:8).
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.
Isaiah 55:8 (KJV)
Then, pray their life management of the things they have control over will be done in a way that honors God and matures their relationship with God!
The truth in LOVE (Ephesians 4:14-16) — NOT IN REVENGE or RETALIATION to a hurt — may at times tear down, but its goal should ALWAYS be to edify and strengthen another in the things that please God.
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive; But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
Ephesians 4:14-16
