Hi Zander,
G. Driggs stated:
Ditto, not saying you hate them zander, but maybe you see something in them you do not like. Turn it back on you and maybe you wont mind them anymore and what ever it is about them will not bother you so much. You might see that you would do or say the same as them in the same situation.
That is so true. There was a time, in the recent past, when I couldn't stand someone. Anything they said would make me LIVID. I just "knew" it was the other person who was wrong, and I was the one who was right.
Oh boy, was I wrong. God turned on the light and showed me that it was ME that I was getting angry with. What I thought were characteristics of the other person were actually characteristics of myself that I didn't want to acknowledge. Therefore, I was projecting my iniquities onto the other person. It was as if God held up a mirror in front of me that I couldn't hide from.
This may or may not be the case in your situation, but don't discount it. It may be that God is showing you a quality of yourself that you may not even know about yourself. We don't even know what's in our own hearts, BUT God does.
Also, what Rene and Kat have said is also SO true. The ATTITUDE is very important to God. Take for example the following passage of Scripture:
Luk 18:9 And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:
Luk 18:10 Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.
Luk 18:11 The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.
Luk 18:12 I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.
Luk 18:13 And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.
Luk 18:14 I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Notice the difference in attitude between the Pharisee and the Publican.
I'm not saying any of this in condemnation; not pointing fingers at anyone other than who looks back at me in the mirror.
In Him,
John