“But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.” (Romans 7:23)
Do you ever have those times when you can’t believe what you just said, or worse yet, what you just did? Sure you have.
We all know there’s no such thing as a perfect Christian, but I hate those looks I get from other believers when they realize I’m not as perfect as they are. I wonder sometimes if they know how silly they appear when they look down their noses at me.
But don’t lose heart. Jesus surrounded himself with people just like you and me. They were great men and women of God who accomplished much for the Lord in their lifetimes; yet they said and did some pretty stupid things.
Take Peter, for example. Peter preached with boldness, never appearing to be ashamed of the Gospel. Yet, just a few weeks before one of his greatest sermons, he was so afraid for his life that he wouldn’t even admit to knowing Jesus. “Woman, I do not know him,” he once said to a servant who recognized him as one of Jesus’ disciples. (Luke 22:57)
The Apostle John was no different. It’s hard to believe that he once looked God right in the eye on behalf of his brother and him and said, “Grant us that we may sit, one on Your right hand and the other on Your left, in Your glory”. God looked back at him through the eyes of Jesus and said, “You do not know what you ask”. (Mark 10:37-38)
We all know how stupid John probably felt. But Jesus didn’t give up on him. He allowed him to grow from his mistakes. In fact, John is later described in the Bible as the disciple whom Jesus loved.
There’s someone else Jesus loved dearly: John the Baptist. In fact, He once said of him, “For I say to you, among those born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist.” (Luke 7:28)
The irony is John the Baptist was about as weird as they come. He was a Nazarite, a religious sect, which insisted that its members avoid cutting their hair and fingernails, or touching a dead body. On top of it all, the Bible records that John the Baptist wore clothes made from camel’s hair and lived largely off of the land, eating locusts and wild honey. I often think of him when I look at my daughter’s boyfriend (and both of his earrings).
The truth is the Bible is full of characters that said and did some foolish things from time to time, but in the end, their faith in Christ won out.
So keep your chin up. God’s love for us will always extend beyond the stupid, crazy things we say and do. Don’t give up on Him because His Word promises that He’ll never give up on us. At least that’s what I believe the psalmist meant when he said, “I have been young, and now am old yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his descendants begging bread.” (Psalms 37:25)
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The Church here in America is a far cry from er years ago pesdeo pastors and you the same It said be you perfect as your father in Heaven is, get at it. the word say in Peter God has given you his divine nature, The word says be led of the spirit, well get led after all the spirit is called Holy. Thats why so many you so called Christians cause people of the world to stumble, your faking it get real with God Repent let God through the Holy Spirit have it perfect work in you, unless you have grieved the Spirits Fire.
Prison Evangelist Get ready judgement starts in the House of the Lord, Just look at you so call sister denominations playing the Harlot, Love of Money, women Usurpers, Sodomite Men and Women in the pulpit, you better wake up friend you better sound the alarm the wolves are in the house and their eaten your bread and drink-in your wine. You have not because you have not you better start getting the right hearts desire before God and it better get to be a perfect one. Stop watering down my Fathers word or you may be one of those he say depart from me you workers of Iniquity, no offense just the truth. The Day of the Lord is at Hand cleanse your filthy hands from the world, unrighteousness, warn the people, God will not be mocked in his own House by preaching dung, words that twitch, that have no anointing because their perverted, that’s a work of the devil, yet when the word of truth is not altered people are saved the lame walk, the blind see and the people are set free from demons.
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