Wednesday, July 27, 2011

One thing is for certain...

"One thing is for certain-He [Jesus] will never throw our past failures back in our faces." ~ Oswald Chambers


I am so thankful that my Savior Jesus does not ever bring up the past, for He knows that we as Christians deal enough with our own guilt and shame of the choices we have made in those times.
The Lord Jesus throws our sin into the sea of forgetfulness and holds the power to make Himself forget them.
Praise be to the Lord Jesus who covers our sins! What is heart wrenching, however, is that so many 'followers of Jesus' are so quick to condemn and bring judgement to their own.
It saddens me, how unlike Jesus the church has become. Instead, the church parades like a Pharisee wearing a mask of holier than thou when truly we have all been covered by the same blood for all sin, not just particular ones.
We as Jesus followers are to be like Him. We are to become little Christ's that shine a light and bring love to the world, but so many of us get caught up on how dirty a person is or how much he or she has messed up.
We all have fallen short of the glory of God... who are we to condemn our brother or sister?
Our jobs as Christians, is to bring love and forgiveness. We are to exhort and encourage one another. We are to carry each others burdens and hardships no matter how heavy or gross they may seem.

My prayer is that we would be so surrendered to Jesus that we walk in all of His footsteps.
My prayer is that we would not throw stones, but reach out with open arms to those who struggling today.
If we stone our brother or sister from the church, where else are they to go?


Choose love today. Look past the surface and realize that each individual on this earth longs for what you do. Choose to be surrendered fully to the One who has covered each and every flaw of yours with His precious blood.

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Keep Reaching....

When rejected while reaching out to another, continue reaching out.

Jesus always will.