Isaiah 44:22

Isaiah 44:22
"I have wiped out your transgressions like a thick cloud And your sins like a heavy mist Return to Me, for I have redeemed you."

Sunday, January 6, 2008

The church...issue

As i sat in communion this lovely sunday morning I came to realize something i hadn't realized before. The church is very much like the jews who crucified Jesus. You see Jesus was the new guy, He came in and wanted to start changing things, like the traditons, the comfy cozyiness, the cliqueness, and wanted to start including people who well..might corrupt everyone else. You know..the sinners. And the jews..they just did not want people like that around. They were too dangerous, and unclean, and just un holy. Problem is that we sometimes act like those very jews who thought Jesus was demon possessed. Sure we don't come out and say it. But our actions...man they're a dead giveaway. We don't like it when someone comes into our comfy little church and tries to change things. We don''t like it when people come into our lives that just see right through our crap, and lay it out for us. We don't like it when they mess with our schedule, our way of doing things. Or expect that we do more for those who are less fortunate. We like to be comfortable people. Do things this way, and treating people that way. How dare someone come in and expect them same inheritance as us, we've been here all of our lives?!?!?!? And then there was Jesus. Jesus.. who ate with sinners. Jesus who was in a hurry to go heal someone, yet stopped to heal a woman who had been hemorraging. Jesus who saw right through the rich young ruler, when asked what he must do to inherit eternal life. Jesus, who told the whole synagogue that people were trying to kill Him. Jesus..who calls us to love others as He has loved us. My question is..are we really living that out? Or are we too busy, too scheduled, too caught up on how we might be corrupted, to content with how comfortable we are to just like the jews, right Jesus off? What is more important to you, to your family to your friends? your comfortableness, ur schedules, ur safey net, or being the follower of Christ who lives out what they claim to believe. Actions speak louder then words. And if our words are saying one thing and our actions are saying another, then people have every right to call us hypocrites, because we are. How can we say we love God and yet hate our brother. We can't have two masters. It's one way or another. Or so i believe i have read in the bible that we are quick to point out to others is the Word of God.

1 comment:

Tanya said...

Well, you wrote it all right. I wonder why I'm your only comment...
Nah, in all reality, I'm just 'too' sometimes myself. I'm convicted of it all the time. We gotta be more like Him and less like... us!