Considerations on "being right"

To have a thing is little, if you're not allowed to show it, to know a thing, is nothing unless others know you know it.  ~Charles Neaves

When I am truly honest with myself, and employ true self observation, I have to admit that I possess a burning desire to be "right", when I compare my own opinions and theological convictions against a brother or sister. 

[Maybe observing this in myself is the first step in the needed transformation of my behavior...]

Why does this seem to exist --especially when I am among fellow church folks? Is it because we are all in this together, and what one member does affects all the others? Perhaps. 

Where does grace enter into our thinking? or into our actions? Does it?

Do I truly think my opinions matter that much to others? 

Do my opinions and convictions matter that much to the Creator? 

Truly I am responsible to Him for my own heartfelt conviction and my own expression of belief or faith. I may have an obligation to share that conviction with another person, but not necessary without their open consent. I do have a desire to offer to The Creator, with a modicum of self abasing humility, a statement of faith, 
"You are God, and I am not. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to understand and recognize through Christ that I am simply Your child. By your Spirit within me, help me to keep that wisdom within my heart, soul and mind and to evidence it by my actions."
Am I so proud and vain as to allow the desire to be right and to have a correct religious belief system to have an effect on my actions and my words, so as to alter the quality of my relationships with others?( Who, by the way, generally have the same burning desire to be right, as well...)
This may be a good aim for my own actions...that I offer no opinions unless my opinion is sought. Otherwise, perhaps my opinions and desires for others around me are better left kept to myself, and not offered or shared. 
Unless I have an innate unconfessed desire to somehow control the actions and beliefs of others, why would I try and express my opinions and convictions to others around me?
Do I have a responsibility to  make sure that they know what I know? If I know a way to express love more effectively, maybe. If I know of a way to help someone free themselves from anxiety or pain, surely. 
But if I discern that I should seek to do that, should I, even if my brother or sister doesn't want to hear me?

These things cause me to ponder my role as a transmitter of God's love & peace.
Perhaps I should focus on simply being that, and leave the "being right" part to the Creator Himself.
Just thinking and meditating on this today.

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