As i was looking around on facebook the other day i came across a note that was written by a friend that some of you may know, Dan Hill. As i began to read the note entitled "The Truth Is..." I was taken back by the Honesty that the first sentence reviled and in so many ways my heart was screaming "that's you too." to make a long story short this post by Dan was great and very thought provoking and inspiring. check it out!!!
The truth is I am a defiled, addicted, heartless, fool who doesn't deserve anyone's sympathy or love. I am broken. I am weak. I can't conquer my sins. I am lost and confused. I can't love, and i refuse to see my savior.
For the first time in my life i see and accept my waywardness. All of us who know Christ know that we have sinned, but very few of us have grasp the depth to which we have fallen and what it should mean for our lives. We hide the pain and weaknesses, putting on a mask because we are told that if we are Christians then our lives should be together, joyful, and sin-free. We think that by trying to act like everything is okay we are moving toward perfection and to renewing our minds. It is in fact the complete opposite.
Mark 2: 17 says, "On hearing this, Jesus said to them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners."" No one on this earth is healthy or righteous so who then are these people that Jesus is referring to and who are those who are sick?
I thought i was okay. I thought that i had my life together, and on the outside it looked like it. I could talk about how God had saved me from sin and how good he was, but all the while i was simply content with following the rules that were easy for me and "condemning" those who struggled with those simple rules; i ignored the things i struggled with because they were easy to hide from the world. I was the "righteous" the Jesus was speaking of.
Since no one is righteous Jesus was talking about people who try to display themselves as "together." We are not able to be truly be freed or forgiven until we consider ourselves sick and needy. It is then that we are given grace and are then able to give grace to others.
1 Corinthians 1: 27-30 says, "But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. 28He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, 29so that no one may boast before him. 30It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption."
When we see ourselves as the lowly, the fools, and the despised it is then that we allow God's grace to truly cover our darkest sin and our greatest weaknesses. We live in transparency and freedom and are given God's peace that despite the truth of our decrepit existence He is love. He gives us the grace to begin boasting in our weaknesses and He uses our sin and our weakness as a testimony of His power and grace. We are set free from the bonds and shame of our life and we begin a new one in His peace.
The Truth is our God is a loving, forgiving,grace giving, peace imparting, miracle working father who deserves all of our love and worship. He is good. He can overcome your sin. He has good plans and knows your steps. He is love and He makes himself known to us. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Mbzk2GfqA
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