The one thing I have noticed today, is that Churches are afraid to call sin sin. People look at the homosexual community and say they are sinning, however in that same breath they are cursing or taking the name of the Lord in vain. Isn't that a sin too? That is the most incredible thing. It is easy to look at a community that waves a flag and say they are sinning because of their choices, but how are we? Are we judging them, are we sinning just how arrogant we are being? We are supposed to be humble and pray. Not to stand on the corner preaching, but be loving. Jesus went to the sinners, He ate with them, however for some reason we believe that we are better and can curse them, tell them they are going to hell, or is it we all are?
We need to start living as Jesus and stop living for ourselves. We are just as bad as the others around us that don't know God. We are sinning, just by saying we are better. But the truth of the matter is, are we stuck on Religion or stuck on God. Let our light shine before men, so that they know the good work God has done in us. Is my light shining, can people see that I am different by my actions, by my words? That is the real question, what kind of witness am I, if I do the same things as the world, if I act the same way as everyone else, because I go to Church on Sunday, because I attend a community group, does that make me different? No, it doesn't, they could attend meetings, where they speak only about good things, where they talk about what is happening in the world, that doesn't make them any different then me attending Church, unless it is not just Religion, but a relationship.
What is a relationship, it is me not just speaking, but being spoken too. It is sharing in the good and bad, it is drawing closer to the other person in the relationship, because I am willing to just be silent. I don't have to justify my existence, because the person loves me for me. Are we trying so hard to be something that we are not, because in that very step, we are stating the person that God made me is not good enough, because I want to be something that I am not. Did that make sense? How many times are we comparing ourselves to someone else? How they look, what they dress like, etc... and we try to emulate the very person, however we can't do that, because God created me just the way He did. It is the imperfections in the world that has me what I am today, it isn't God's fault, it is my own fault for seeking, for trying to be like others, instead of excepting who God has made me be.
We have choices, we have difference, but if we do not except the very choices that we have and state that others made me this way, we never take the responsibility on ourselves. We never see who is truly to blame for where we are. That is the key to this whole thing, religion or relationship. I am who I am, because of what God has done in me, however when I allow the world to control my thoughts to control who I am, because I don't like what God has done, I am making a choice. That choice will either send me to hell or to heaven. It is that very thing, that defines who I am.
People today are lost because they do not know who they are, they are lost because they do not compare to anyone else. They see themselves as broken, instead of seeing the true person that God has made. They can't except the love of Jesus, because they have made a choice to say I am not lovable, I am not capable of giving love, because of who I am. But if they stop comparing, if they stop searching for an answer and see the truth right in front of them, they will see what they are looking for. But people don't want to make the choice, they want to blame everyone else. If you look into each community you will notice blame and more blame, but the people that are free from it, stop blaming others and start excepting fault, excepting brokenness, start seeing the truth behind all they have and all they are. It is only than, that people are free to be whom God calls them to be.
What does God call you to be? Stop looking to blame others and start making the choices your own. Start saying I chose because God made me. Start taking the ownership of who you are, because God created you.
Hared choices require hard decisions which require total surrender from what I want to who God is creating me.
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