“His life would be so much better if he would just listen to my advice.”
or
“I can see clearly what she is doing wrong and I know just what she needs to do to make it right.”
I am sure you have thought this same thing from time to time too, but there is a problem with trying to give good advice to everyone else. The problem is this, when WE don’t even follow our own advice and do what is right, how can we expect others to? Even the Apostle Paul struggled with good advice.
“I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God — through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.” Romans 7:21-25