Blog Time...especially now that i don't have to post this on twitter/tumblr/facebook now... just gotta tell the Myspacerz
anywho so yeah i dunno how long this one's gunna be...but i was just thinking today before work and i was thinking about grace
and i was thinking about how much I ignore grace... i mean really i do
as Christians (and we all do it... my self included to the umpteenth degree) we tend to think we are better than those who are unsaved because we are going to heaven...and in reality we aren't...
it was grace that saved me from where i was...honestly, before Christ, i was going to hell in a hand basket...i mean really i was no better than the worst of sinners...
so what gives me the right to point out the flaws in others...aren't they given the same grace that i was given...there is not one person on this earth who is beyond the grace and love of Christ..
i think i need to focus alittle bit more on showing and telling instead of pointing and judging...
Romans 2:1-4 "1You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, BECAUSE YOU WHO PASS JUDGMENT DO THE SAME THINGS. 2Now we know that God's judgment against those who do such things is based on truth. 3So when you, a mere man, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God's judgment? 4Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience, NOT REALIZING THAT GOD'S KINDNESS LEADS YOU TOWARD REPENTANCE? "
these verses make me tear me up...really they do...almost literally...basically it says "judging people is stupid"
we like to point out the flaws in other people and when people do the same to us we say "oh well that's different because (insert self-justification here)" and i really love the sarcasm in verse 4... "do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, tolerance and patience"... honestly we should be happy to know that God has the ability, the love, the compassion, the power, the mercy, the grace, to love the most undeserving sinner...
and not only that....but to go as far as to call us His son (or daughter)....wow...
and it is God's kindness that leads us towards repentance...soo true
the truth is...i don't deserve life...and i most defiantly don't deserve life more abundantly...but that's God's love for you...
I guess I'll end with a quote i thought about while listening to music and thinking...
"The world takes everything for granted, we take everything for grace."
oh and btw...when i was typing this...i had a whole different idea about were this was going...and i was actually looking for a different group of verses in Romans...but then Romans 2 caught my eye....
there goes God... showing me that my plans are nothing compared to His...lol
Thursday, August 6, 2009
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