I’m a human being and I’m a sinner. I lie. I rip-off people. I judge others. I swear. I get jealous of others. I hurt other people’s feelings. I leave people out. I think I’m better than other people. I’m prideful. I boast about all the things I’ve done and achieved. I get angry at my parents. I’m critical of my sister. I look down on others. I occasionally masturbate. I talk about people behind their backs. I make fun of people. I compare myself to others. I’ve been drunk before. I break the law and rules often. I ignore people. I’m not generous. I always think I’m right. I’m a hypocrite. I say one thing and do the other. I write these blogs yet sometimes I often fall back to doing the things that God’s already convicted me to not do. I’m a person that doesn’t deserve to be forgiven, but God continues to forgive me, love me and redeem me.
Sometimes I think I’m not so bad: I haven’t killed anyone. I don’t steal. I don’t smoke. I’m not a lesbian. I haven’t had sex. I haven’t taken any drugs. I’ve only been wasted twice. I don’t say F#%!. I don’t waste all my money on buying materialistic things for myself. I try to read my bible every day. I tithe, maybe not 10% but I still do it. BUT the truth is, all sin is sin. There are no levels to sin. So to compare myself with someone that smokes or has sex and say that they are worse than me when I continue to judge them in my head is wrong. There’s no such thing as the worst sinner or the person that has sinned the least. We all sin and all sin leads to death and separation from God. HOWEVER God knew us and knew that we are weak and desire to do the wrong thing, so He already prepared a perfect sacrifice for us in order that we won’t have to experience the consequence of our sinful nature. He sent His ONE and ONLY son, Jesus, who was perfect and didn’t have any sinful bone in his body to come to Earth to be tortured, mocked and spat at and nailed to a cross to suffer and die in front of everyone SO WE COULD LIVE and be in eternity with Him. John 3:16 says, “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.”
I don’t know how you take and grasp that knowledge or whether you choose to ignore it, but it happened, and He did it for YOU and for me. Often I wonder why, especially when we continue to sin, walk away from Him, choose to not want any part of this and make Jesus suffer more, but He did it, once and for all, because He loves us SO much, doesn’t want us to suffer and perish but desires to have a relationship with us until eternity.
Do you have a relationship with Jesus? Do you want it? We are all sinners and we all have a horrible end to our lives unless we believe in the sacrifice that God made for us through Jesus and the gift of eternal life He offers to us freely. I’m here if you need to talk, pray with or walk alongside with if you want to receive Jesus into your life. Jesus loves you unconditionally. I pray that you will know it, believe it and start walking in it. I love you guys and will be praying for you all.
