At 26, I am still figuring out my faith and what it means to me. Sometimes I am embarrassed to call myself a christian. I don't want to be associated with the majority of people who call themselves Christians in the world today. Yes, I believe in God, yes I believe in Jesus and that he died for my sins. I am not embarrassed of that. But I think Christians have become well known for their extreme judgementalism and close-minded ignorance. I don't want to be known for George Bush's spilling of thousands of innocent people's blood, Joel Osteen lining his pockets in the name of God, the mega churches with starbucks, Terry Jones threatening to burn the Koran on 9/11, the person holding that sign that says "God hates fags" or "Abortion is homicide".
I do not believe that God put me here on this earth to be the decider of whether or not someone else is living their life the way they should be or not. God created all sin equal and maybe if I had NO sin in my own life, then I could have a say in someone else's life. Until then, I consider myself just as guilty as the person I may be judging and I'm going to keep pulling the forests of logs out of my own eyes. Don't get me wrong, I think if you really care about your friends and you see them harming themselves, you should take action to help them, but not through words of condemnation. Through ACTIONS of LOVE and by EXAMPLE!
I just get so sad to think that we lose faith in other's so easily, that we are so quick to make a judgement about them for their mistakes. No matter what someone does, we do not know what goes through their head in the still of the night when it's just them and their thoughts. That, only God knows. I think we may be surprised when we get to heaven and see who is there with us. I know the bible says that the only way to heaven is through Christ, but I struggle to believe that someone in Bangladesh, Tibet, Syria, Fiji, etc. that devotes their entire life to the creator, and doing good, but didn't call him by the name Jesus wouldn't be accepted with open arms at the gates of heaven. I don't know much, but I really feel that the God I know would accept them.
I DO know that God is so much bigger than us and our labels and compartments. And that gives me so much hope. That's all for tonight...
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well, as you can see from the "delay" in responding to this post, I have not been very good at checking in with blogs for quite awhile! Just wanted to say that I hear your heart and agree on so many levels. The pharisees were the only people Jesus judged, and then those who go and call themselves his followers act more like Pharisees than anything else. I know I can be guilty of that too on many levels. My word for this year is LOVE. Oh to learn to truly love.
Thanks so much for saying that Nic. I was kind of nervous to see if you would respond or what you would think, I don't know why.. :)
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