You Can Lead A Horse To Water

There is a popular quote that says, "you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink". I love that description! In my life I see many unhappy people and I see certain ways they are choosing to live and yet are not fulfilled. I see what I feel they could be doing differently and sometimes people will even ask me for my advice, so I feel compelled to give it. When I do, and I try to base it off of truth from the Word of God and also my own mistakes of similar scenarios that I have learned from but I can't be responsible for what they decide to do with my wisdom and advise.

People will do what they will do in the end. It's frustrating but it is true. We have to allow others around us to make those choices and back off a little and let them process their own life at their own time.
This is another example of learning to surrender your life fully to God. I know there may be others in your life that you want to take them by the hand and make them change, this is not trusting. A very good discipline you can try is to learn to surrender those people in your life fully to Him. So the next time you are frustrated with someone that is close to you and you feel responsible to make them see the light or change, try to substitute your anger or worry into surrendering that power of your own control over them to literally stopping and take a breath and pray right there and then for them, silently, trusting is not an easy discipline, it's a quietness under control. In the end you are actually loving that person by giving up your control in a self-less way. "Love covers a multitude of sins (wrongs).

Philippians 2:1-4

"Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being life-minded, having the same love, being one in the spirit and one of mind. Do nothing out of selfish ambition and vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourself, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of others."