Continued Education

So it's probably no surprise to most of my friends and family, that through the years, I've always been a pretty judgmental person. I realize how wrong this is, and God has really taught me over the past few years that my Judgment of others, isn't something he's going to put up with.

I'm thankful that God loves me enough, to discipline me when I do something wrong. Even now, he's nudging me in a new direction, by putting things on my heart. I have family that do really messed up stuff. Family who, the majority of their time, can't even afford electricity, or water, because of the decisions that they make. Sometimes I find myself saying "Well if they didn't do this, or that, they'd not be in this condition."

It's easy to say something like this, and then just brush it off. But even though it's taken me awhile to realize it, I am now starting to understand, that it doesn't matter what you do... Jesus still loves you. Some people may be closer to him than others, but it doesn't change the fact that he still loves the people who sin, as much as he does the people who spend all of their time trying to please him.

Jesus says:

Luke 5:31-32
And Jesus answered and said to them, "{It is} not those who are well who need a physician, but those who are sick. "I have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance."

It is easy to kick someone while they're down.. The flesh loves to gossip, and to judge others because of the things that they do. As a Christian, it gets even easier to do this. You start thinking, "Well look at what all I've done.. They don't deserve mercy." But that's not true. God has been so good to me. I can think of many times, that I'd have been in some very bad situations, if it weren't for Christians, who said that they would not look at the person outside, but at the person inside. People who have helped me, when the majority of the world would have said that I didn't deserve mercy, or help, because I was the one who got myself into the situation that I was in.. It's like the old saying, "You made your bed, now lie in it."

This isn't the way that Christ wants us to treat each other. He is the head, and we are his hands and his feet on this earth. My only comfort on this earth, is that while I was still a sinner, Christ stretched out his arms, and died a cursed death.

"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16

Thank God, for grace.