“Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus…” How is it that the church has failed so miserably at mimicking the mind of God? As it is we are more often the object of God’s lament. "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.” Selfish ambition, vain conceit, thinking of oneself to be better than the other are more often the way we think and truth to be told we suffer not as Christ but as those who looking only to their own interests cannot escape the lonely consequences. Of course we dress up our differences in doctrinal arguments and clothed in self righteous piety are quick to claim conformity to Christ without giving an inch lest our brother or sister be tempted to take a mile. God is grieved when in claiming to defend the Gospel we fail to live it. Holding forth for whatever we hold as sacred or worth fighting over must be able to stand the litmus test of Christ. Though he was fully God He emptied himself to inhabit our flesh and die the death we deserve and therefore in the end He will be the judge. It’s not What Would Jesus Do but What Did Jesus Do that matters. If that is the mind we are to have then giving up is the only way to hold on.
Ecclesiatics 7:20 "There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins."
ReplyDelete1 John 1:8 "If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us."
Romans 3:10-12 "As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands, no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one."
Hannah Montana "Nobody's perfect, but we gotta work it."
Ok, heres there truth, we all suck! I suck, everyone sucks. We all took part in killing Christ, with the way we are acting. What can be expected of dirt? My faith sucks, too! I lean on my OWN understanding and I fall into lies from the devil. We all do it. What can we do? Isaiah 64:5 says: "All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away."
Sometimes I wonder what life is all about and then EVEN AT MY LOWEST POINTS, God pulls me back in and says "you were created for my pleasure." Paraphrased Revelation 4:11. There are times when I think it is a sick joke, I won't lie, but I gotta trust that if God came up with plate tectonics, he can do whatever he wants to do and he has my "vapor" of a life under control.