I started this blog sometime ago and haven't really came back to continue writing... I do have handwritten notes to add one day but today I'm writing off the cuff....
During my morning Bible study this morning...
I began to ponder a few things.... how often do we judge people by something they've done or do???
How often do we say "No" to people and push them away from serving in church because of their past or something they do that we say doesn't match up to God's word or the way God wants us to live....
How often do we say No, you're not ready.... you're not equipped???
I wonder how often that person feels that way about themselves without us telling them those things.... making them feel worse about themselves???
Now, looking at some of the Bibles messed up people...
What if....the spies that Rahab saved said No, she is just a prostitute she can't help us for she isn't living up to God's standards.... I wonder if they could see the future and know that she was in the lineage of Jesus would they condemn her and hurt her more than she probably was doing on her own??? Jesus doesn't pick the people who are living right, why should we?? God doesn't use the people equipped... look at Moses... God equips the people He chooses....
Look at David, what would we say and do to someone like him today???? Would we accept him and let him be a king(president).... would we shun him... would we push him out because he was an adulterer, a murderer... God, called him a man after His own heart....
Well now that I've wrote this I must watch how I judge people... for I don't know their heart but do I really want to judge anyone.... for the Bible is very clear, I will be judged at how I judge others... that scares me because I am very judgemental and sometimes my judgements are correct but sometimes they're very wrong.... I need to learn to pray and ask God to help me love people, reach the world but above all love God and seek His heart.
If you feel you've been pushed away from the church because of your past... forgive them, and remember there is not a perfect church, nor a perfect person but if God has forgiven you and your past... look up and seek to serve Him however He calls...
I watched Ragamuffin on Netflix recently and as I watched it I was very judgemental by the way this guy look and what he said and did.... and I wondered if I knew this guy would I have been accepting and loving to him or would I be one that judged him and pushed him away??? What I loved was he kept going and doing as God called him if only I could say I've done that myself.... This movie was based on a true story and an amazing song writer... Rich Mullins.
