John 7: 7 The world cannot hate you, but it hates me because I testify that what it does is evil.
8:6 ....But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. 7 When they kept on questioning him, he straightened up and said the them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."
Many of us do not want to see/accept Jesus for the first time, because He tells us the truth: we have sin in our lives. Sin makes us unworthy of heaven and we need a way to get there (if that is where we want to end up after this life). He is the way. But we don't want Him, because we know that if we accept Jesus this means our lives will change. We might end up like those boring Christians.
I am in love with being a boring Christian. My life has changed. I feel better about myself than I ever have in the past. And I know what my future holds (in eternity). And so, because of that knowledge and assurance of Jesus, I want to share Him. I want to love like Him. I want to see those I love coming to Him so we can walk this walk together.
I know there are still plenty of blind spots in my Christian walk, and the Lord is showing those to me. My goal is never to make someone feel condemned because of their sin. I still have sin in my own life (whether or not I recognize it) and so... I walk with Jesus, praying that He opens my heart that I can see the ways I am blind in my walk. My prayer is that He uses that blindness and my new knowledge of it to be glorified on this earth and to bring more people to Himself.
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