Revising Your ability to be like Christ

The truth is, we don’t get a say.

We don’t have the luxury of being a Pharisee, and when we act like one, it drives people away from Christ. When we, as individuals, behave as if every sin has a different cost, we decide we are big enough and important enough to be just like God- and we are not. When we influence others to make those decisions about who is right and who is wrong, who has a greater sin, who has weaker flesh, we become exactly the opposite of what Christ expects of us.

How is it over the course of 2000 years, we keep repeating the exact same mistakes as are written in God’s word?

How is it we keep looking back, like Lots wife?

How is it we stone people, while standing in our glass house?

How is it we determine the value of someone based on their skin color, their nationality, their origin?

How is it we can persecute others based on their sin, while disregarding our own?

Why do other Christian people allow us to continue doing this with no repercussions?

Why doesn’t someone say something?

Christians need to stand for one another, hold one another, love one another. It doesn’t matter what your sin is, we are all equals here. On this playing field, there is no one who is worth more or less. Not one of us is perfect, not one of us truly righteous. Your position doesn’t matter. Your title doesn’t matter. When we are at the table, we are all the same.

When Christians stop persecuting one another, stop holding some accountable while looking the other way for others, start loving unconditionally, then the world will see Christ.

Until that happens, the only thing they see is a group of people who think they are too good for the sinner, way beyond the sin, and lying to themselves about their own salvation.

 

It is not too late to speak up.

It is not too late to love people regardless of their sin.

It is not too late to be unconditional Christians.

We have to make that choice, each of us as individuals. We have to choose to be Jesus to each other when we need it most, instead of turning our backs on each other. When we don’t know what “to do” about someone’s sin, that’s ok. We can do nothing. We can simply love them. We can be the difference. We can hold our brothers and sisters like there is no tomorrow. We can pray, we can worship, we can live as we want to live in Christ, without this baggage of judgement.

What will YOU do today to make this different?

How will you revise your ability to be more like Christ?