Walking with a limp
Hmm.. thoughts just shifting on a moderately busy today towards sin.. mine, and lots of it.
I wonder how many people out there think the church is full of 'holy' and morally upright people, with picture postcard families, hearts for the poor and needy, innocently walking about with a bounce in their step...
...I wonder if these are the same people that get put off when they meet the christian rank and file working in the next cubicle, living next door or serving them over the counter..
...which they probably will, because the truth is, church is NOT full of perfect moral people... its full of sinful people...
... and im one of them. Probably one of the worst. Im no better than the guy next door... and I think its about time to stop pretending and acting like that is so :)
Jesus answered them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." Luke 5:31-32
He found me, and called me... not because im healthy, but because im desperately sick... repenting is a daily activity, because im never short of things to repent of :)
But when i realise its no longer about me, when all striving in my own strength ceases, when i understand that its not about me and not about how much I can or cannot do, what a wonderful sense of thankfulness and security that brings.
Under the weight a pretty divine orchestration of concurrent happenings and thoughts, something broke inside recently.
I walk with a limp that I fully embrace and thank God for...
Father, thank You for moving heaven and earth (quite literally) to bring me here... i see your fingerprints all over and its such a joy to know you are at work. Like brother Jacob so long ago, as the sun rose the next morning after he wrestled with You...
Thank You so much that it is... a new day, a new identity and a new walk.
Humbled,
your son.
I wonder how many people out there think the church is full of 'holy' and morally upright people, with picture postcard families, hearts for the poor and needy, innocently walking about with a bounce in their step...
...I wonder if these are the same people that get put off when they meet the christian rank and file working in the next cubicle, living next door or serving them over the counter..
...which they probably will, because the truth is, church is NOT full of perfect moral people... its full of sinful people...
... and im one of them. Probably one of the worst. Im no better than the guy next door... and I think its about time to stop pretending and acting like that is so :)
Jesus answered them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." Luke 5:31-32
He found me, and called me... not because im healthy, but because im desperately sick... repenting is a daily activity, because im never short of things to repent of :)
But when i realise its no longer about me, when all striving in my own strength ceases, when i understand that its not about me and not about how much I can or cannot do, what a wonderful sense of thankfulness and security that brings.
Under the weight a pretty divine orchestration of concurrent happenings and thoughts, something broke inside recently.
I walk with a limp that I fully embrace and thank God for...
Father, thank You for moving heaven and earth (quite literally) to bring me here... i see your fingerprints all over and its such a joy to know you are at work. Like brother Jacob so long ago, as the sun rose the next morning after he wrestled with You...
Thank You so much that it is... a new day, a new identity and a new walk.
Humbled,
your son.
posted by DarkRed at 5:45 pm
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