My natural bent when faced with what I perceive as wrong in another, is to forge ahead immediately to correct things. I found some good quotes from Oswald Chambers that were helpful to me in this area.
"How do I deal with a sinful soul? Do I remember who I am, or do I deal with him as if I were God?...To know that the truth is applicable to another life is a sacred trust from God to you. You must never say anything about it. Restraint in these matters is the way to maintain communion with God...Never interfere with God's providential dealings with other souls. Be true to God yourself and watch...my one concern in public and private is to worship God...Remember, in estimating other lives there is always one fact more you don't know...If we realize the intense sacredness of a human soul in God's sight we will no longer romp in where angels fear to tread, we will pray and wait. Never talk for the sake of making the other person see you are in the right. Talk only that he may see the right...In the majority of cases we don't care a bit about a soul rebelling against Jesus Christ, but we do care about his humiliating us...When you are brought face to face with a case of happy indifference, pray for all you are worth, but let him alone with your tongue - the hardest thing for an earnest Christian to do...Beware lest human pity pervert the meaning of Calvary so that you have more compassion for a soul than for the Savior...Never give a soul the help God alone should give; hand him right on to God...Our duty is to present God, and never get in the way even in that."
"How do I deal with a sinful soul? Do I remember who I am, or do I deal with him as if I were God?...To know that the truth is applicable to another life is a sacred trust from God to you. You must never say anything about it. Restraint in these matters is the way to maintain communion with God...Never interfere with God's providential dealings with other souls. Be true to God yourself and watch...my one concern in public and private is to worship God...Remember, in estimating other lives there is always one fact more you don't know...If we realize the intense sacredness of a human soul in God's sight we will no longer romp in where angels fear to tread, we will pray and wait. Never talk for the sake of making the other person see you are in the right. Talk only that he may see the right...In the majority of cases we don't care a bit about a soul rebelling against Jesus Christ, but we do care about his humiliating us...When you are brought face to face with a case of happy indifference, pray for all you are worth, but let him alone with your tongue - the hardest thing for an earnest Christian to do...Beware lest human pity pervert the meaning of Calvary so that you have more compassion for a soul than for the Savior...Never give a soul the help God alone should give; hand him right on to God...Our duty is to present God, and never get in the way even in that."
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