You Are Living in Sin...Well...DUHHH Category: Blogging
My daughter called me upset last night. Not boo hoo upset but more like ARGHHHH upset. We have a family member that is "Christian" and the quotes I put around the word Christian are definitely done the smart ass way...You know the kind of Christian I am talking about. The your going to burn in hell for breathing kind .
Anyway, she gets a call from this "Christian" who begins to give her a list of her shortcomings than proceeds to give her advice (his) about how to straighten up and fly right. After the phone call my daughter felt like she had been beaten about the Spirit with a Holy Stick. It breaks my heart when that happens to anybody.
As Jesus representative (he thinks he is) he might as well have said " Hello, my name is Jesus Jr. and I am here to rip out your self esteem...empty you...because I need an empty earth suit to inhabit so that all the world will fear and loathe me." Unfortunately there are so many "Christians" of this mindset that I feel Jesus got a bad rap.
If you had a friend who constantly went around pointing out your flaws, sniffing out your faults and shortcomings, reminding you that you BELONG to them in a slave like fashion....just how long would you be friends?
At a church one time there was a prayer I heard that is common in most churches...the less of me...more of you Jesus...kind of prayer. That just doesn't set right with me and never will. I am like Popeye...I Am's what I Am's. He came not to condemn the world....it plainly states. How come they miss that? It makes me wonder who is really their master .
The phrase "Judge not"...comes up a lot. What does that really mean? I know what it means to me. I don't think that God runs around like a Sin Detective with a big notebook logging in our sins so that on Judgement Day..whatever that is...he pulls out the big notebook and proceeds to list our crimes against the Kingdom of Heaven. If all of my faults and shortcomings make me who I am than I might as well surrender now and be done with it.
If that IS the way it goes down than wasn't Jesus the dumbest God ever? He willingly crawled up on a cross...died...to cover my faults and invite me to an even more personal friendship. If my behaviour and decisions (which changes daily) is the determining factor of whether I am in like Flynn or out....getting up on that cross was the biggest mistake ever....if it's all up to me.....
The judgement we should be focusing on (my opinion) is to never ever...judge a mans worth to God. That is when we are in danger...I think. We have NO right to judge a mans worth to God. If this is where we could get in trouble then it's all done backwards by these fire breathing Christians isn't it? I have learned more by doing the exact opposite of what most fire breathing Christians tell me. I put it in reverse...real quick.
My daughter was told she was "living in sin." Who is not "Living in Sin". The word Sin in the original Aramaic means "falling short". Who does not fall short on a daily basis of who and what we could be in a perfect state. I break one of the 10 commandments on a daily basis. The story about those commandments is often used as the Holy Stick they beat up people with. It was the Israelites who had to have rules. After they were liberated from Egypt...just being liberated was not enough...they begged for rules. So...God gave them some...knowing fully well they could not be attained in perfection...thus enter....Jesus. God gave us a moral mirror that we would have to look into and eventually say....forget it...I need some help here.
I don't think Jesus ever intended for us to regress to being beat up about laws...rules and regulations...pointing of fingers and and discovering all our faults. Quite the contraire...He just wanted to be friends...and paid the ultimate sacrifice with his life. What else would we accept? The laying down your life for your brother works for me. Remember what he said with his dieing breath? "Father forgive them...for they know not what they do." That phrase pretty much describes me to a T....I don't know what I am doing half the time. I just do the best I can.
I just don't understand why most who call themselves Christians cannot relax. It's like they have an eternal to do list that will never be finished.
So...if you are a Christian with a to do list...and I am on it....mark me off....not interested. I am OK with who I am. I am good with Jesus...who in my opinion Loves me just the way I am....faults and all. I mean come on...he just wanted to be friends...whats so hard about that? Better question...why do you make it so hard?
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