You see, i find myself, consistently sinning, consistently messing up.
Continually hurting my God, myself, and the people closest to me.
These things continually bother me, continually bring me down. Put me into a worse attitude. Focusing on me, a constant selfishness.
I see this as a result of viewing the Word, and Jesus wrong.
So many times we see the word (i say we b/c i know many of my friends who view it the same way) as this set of rules, and if you follow htem you will succeed, in getting to heaven, mainly if you follow the believing in the miracles of the cross, and everythign it stands for, not what i'm blogging about so i'm not gonna retell that story now.
But. This view of rules, and expectations that WE, ESPECIALLY ME will never ever come close to meeting, not as long as i'm a human at least, is so negative. When, ever in the Bible, does it say to be negative? to view these things as negative?
I have found there is a much better view of the Word.
TO BE FREE.
SO many times we think about John 3:16, For god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son so that it could be saved. I think we often look over the very next verse, and how much more important it is. Because Jesus saving the world could result in a million stipulations but John 3:17 says, For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Jesus was sent to be a source of joy,
Jesus was sent to FREE US! not to point out how terribly messed up we are.
(Disclaimer: we are to work on our faults, and better ourselves, dont get me wrong, and we are to do what we can in the process of becoming better, ya know help ourselves become more like God)
Jesus came to set us free, from our sins, from our faults.
I whole heartedly believe, that we as CHristians spend too much time condemning others, as a result of condemning ourselves.
We consistently point out our own faults, and hate ourselves, for where we continually mess up, and we take that out on other so we can feel better.
We in our heads, or as a "means of helping you better yourself" will tell a person what they can fix, and HOW WE GUARANTEE THEY CAN! (please read my sarcasm) We judge in ourselves, at least we arent that far down this slippery slope? as we build an Ego, instead of a confidence that is holy.
This can be stopped.
Love God, and Love God alone. dont look at yourself. For if you love God, you will slowly fix yourself.
If instead of focusing on these negatives in ourselves, and focused solely on God, and his perfection, We coudl see all he sees in us. If we continually think of How wonderful God really is. I beg you, try and spend your day praying, a prayer of praise to the Lord, to see how he sees, with his perfect eyes. We can see how he views us, and have that confidence, that is holy. And see how he will fix us over time, and not give ourselves that ego, of "solving our own problems"
You see, God is holy, and without him i am nothing.
I urge you, view the Bible as a source of freedom, freedom from our human souls and body that are slowly bring us down a bad slope. Praise God constantly, so that he can fix us, and we stop trying to fix ourselves. Ultimately it is his glory that matters.
For when we are reminded of God's perfection, The worries will wayne away, as we see financial problems, or hurts caused by people close to us, if we look at God, and how great he is, a way will be provided to pay for what is needed, and foregiveness will be found, somewhere within, and God will mend these problems.
With love, its been too long.
Zeke.
(sorry if this seems like the church, HEY EVERYTHING WILL BE ALRIGHT message, its not meant to be that way, but meant to be a means of peace in the storm, God Loves. focus on him)
