Smoothing the edges
I've mentioned that I like Nancy Leigh DeMoss' books before, but the one that some of the ladies in my church are doing as a group study has been eye-opening and convicting. For more information, click here. During discussion time, one of the ladies in our study mentioned (for we were discussing being hurt by others and how we must forgive - even if we don't want to or don't "feel like it") that sometimes God brings certain people into your life to smooth out your ruff edges; like they are the sandpaper that He is using to soften our roughness. I think she called them "God's sandpaper". I let that sink in for a second. In my vain mind, I thought that the people that God brought into my life were the ones who needed changing, not me! I didn't think that I could be effected in that way. Not once did I ever stop to think that maybe, just maybe God is using this group of believers or non-believers (in other situations it may not be