The Day of Today

So i just created this blog and i think it will be a pretty cool way to express myself in the ways that God is changing me and revealing things to me. If you are reading this, I ask for prayer in the problems I have been having. And if you would like, you can leave prayer requests and i will try my best to pray for you as often as possible.

So....
Today I reading my bible, and something struck me like no other.
Recently I have been reading the books of the gospel and I was reading the latter part of John.

As I read I like to highlight things that stick out to me or things that I should work on to be more like Christ.

What I read today, I had to highlight the number of the chapter itself cuz there was so much to ponder.
John 17.
Setting = Jesus is praying before him and his disciples go to the mount of olives.

MIND BLOWING PART = Jesus prays specifically for US!
YEAH! i know! its crazy.
Here he is. He knows wats coming. He knows that the time for him to betrayed is coming up. That has to be a stressful situation. Yes, He is the Son of God but he also had human emotions. It says in other gospels that "his sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground" (Luke 22:44) when he was praying before he was arrested.
So in summary, he is in a very stressed situation.

BUT, in spite of this, he prays for us.
"For I gave them the words you gave me and they accepted them. They knew with certainty that I came from you, and they believed that you sent me. I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are ours... I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, protect them by the power of your name ... so that they may be one as we are one" John 17:8-12

this is crazy! crazy crazy crazy! Jesus knows at this point that he will be leaving this world, and He knows that as humans living on this earth for Him, we will find ourselves in trial. So he prayed to our Almighty Father to protect us.

And again
"I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and loved them even as you have loved me." John 17:23
Complete unity. Thats what Jesus expected of us as a Body of Christ. As a family in God.
But if I look at myself right now, am i really being an advocate for this? or am I just being an obstruction to it?
On Monday, I went to a Bible Study and we were studying Luke 6.
and what i learned there really clicked with this.
"Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.... For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
Yikes... from judging at first sight to even fellow Christians, this is something i def need to work on
How can I say that I want to live 100% for God and do His Will while this is holding me back?
Dear Heavenly Father, with this day of today, allow me to let this bad habit go. Dont let me carry it around with me. By judging others, I limit myself to the people that i would get to meet and to talk to God about. By judging others, I hold myself and my other brothers and sisters in Christ back. That is def not something I want to do.

Well, first blog post. feel pretty good sharing this though.
If i could share a prayer request, it would be for patience as I wait for God to reveal to me His Will for me, and the truth of a situation I have been going through (so i guess the second one is a unspoken one) but God knows. I would greatly appreciate it.