853) It’s easy these days to get someone angry at you and, if not angry, irritated. Grace is sometimes hard to find among people. Isn’t it funny that we can so quickly recognize the ill-treatment others give us and not see the ill-treatment we give to others?

Matthew 5:23-24 instructs us that before we come to God, in prayer and worship, we need to make things right with anyone that we may have a conflict with. This does not say that the other people involved are to come to us. This is an important thing both for us and them; before we worship, not after.