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God is not going to change anyone you are dealing with He first changes you. But if you are quit complaining about everybody around you and instead, start taking a good look inside and working with God to change you, God will change those other people. Examine your own heart and see if there are attitudes and motives that you need to change.
Recognize that God wants to do a work in you. He is molding you and refining you. But you are so busy trying to evade the difficulty, the work is not being done. You are so focused on all the circumstances and all the people around you that you have not taken time to look deep inside and deal with the issues God is bringing to light.
Perhaps you get worried and full of fear when important things do not go your way. Have you ever thought that God may be allowing those events to reach you to trust Him and to see if your will stay peaceful and calm in the midst of the storm? Have you considered that God may be allowing some of that to teach you how to rule over your emotions? He may be trying to toughen you up, to help you develop some backbone and stability on your life.
We have to be willing to change our attitudes and deal with the issues God brings up, then God will change those circumstance.
God loves you far too much to allow you to go through life in mediocrity. He will often permit pressure to be applied to your life, to test you and only as you pass those tests will you advance He will put people and circumstances in your path that grate on your life sandpaper, but He will use them to rub off your rough edges. Y0ou may not always like it, you may want to run from it, you may own resist it, but God is going to keep bring up the issue again and again until you pass the test.
