Amos 3+4/Matthew 17+18
Why do I
continually get amazed when the World acts like the World? Uh, duh, right? They
gossip, they lie, they cheat, they blame, they run after success, they are
bitter, they do drugs, they have sex, they think I’m crazy. They are exactly
how I am apart from Christ.
Again, uh,
duh? I wouldn't be upset if a guy in a wheelchair didn't stand to pray, so why
do I get upset when the people who haven’t been redeemed by Jesus don’t act
like people who have been redeemed by Jesus? Apart from Him I can do nothing
and neither can they. The only difference is I know that. That pisses them off
even more.
Most of my frustrations (and probably most of a lot of Christian's frustrations) come from forgetting where we've been. After being submersed in Christian culture for so long we forget that at one point none of this God, Jesus, Spirit stuff made any sense to use either. That's when we become condescending religious nuts. That's when we start acting outside of God's love, grace, and wrath. That's when we, ironically, start acting a lot like what God saved us out of.
The whole foundation of Christianity is Jesus' redeeming work on the Cross. The whole foundation for that is God's love for us and our inability to fix the problem of our sin. That realization should allow us to show Grace, and only Grace to those who are no different than us.
Lord, help
me show Grace to those who don’t know You and act accordingly.
-Amen
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