Message

I’m always amazed at how the human mind works. The capacity to rationalize some sin as being justified.

Or to make a big issue over someone else’s shortcomings while ignoring your own. That is just as bad.

I’ve been dealing with a person who is that way. And it is so sad because the individual tries to don this image of being so forgiving and loving.

Yet in reality it doesn’t take much for the person to display such hate and do it so easily. As if being very practiced.

It is so remarkable how the person can’t even see the message this type of behavior is sending. Hardly one of love or even listening to God.

I think it is always important to keep that fact in mind. That even when we don’t intend it, our witness truly does say so much that way.

Now I am in no way saying I’m perfect. Or that I haven’t done my share of sinning in my life.

But I do try to be honest about it. There are times when it is necessary to mention some problem.

Yet there is a difference in how we share it. We can do it to hate and hurt or to heal and help.

But being human we don’t always have the ability to not do it for the wrong reasons. And that is always made worse when we are not honest.

With this one person I have simply not allowed their hate to force me into acting the same. I have not reacted by doing the same.

And in the process I think the Lord has been able to use it to show the contrast between grace and legalism. And to see how a person who embraces grace is different than who practices their hate with judgmental actions.

All of which is with the hope that others will see the difference. And then be affected by it in a good way.

It really is a hard path to follow at times. For that means not giving into the urge to return pain.

That never ends up with a blessing. But some never will understand it. And for them it will always end with sadness.