Passage: Matthew 7:1-12
Whether it's in our families, on the job, in the classroom, at church, etc., we will encounter difficult people. God will often use these people in our lives to make us more dependent on Him, teaching us to let Him love them through us.
Our tendency may be to judge them and retreat from them. Both of these responses are outside of the will of God and ultimately drawn us away from the presence of God. The greatest commandment calls us to love the Father with our heart, soul and mind and to love our neighbor as our self. As we grow in our relationship with Christ the fruit of our transformation should be revealed in our relationships with others.