02.03.09

Struggling to be Right

Posted in community, love, relationship at 12:11 am by Administrator

Have you ever gone round and round with someone trying to show them how you are right? Yet how many times have we struggled to assert our correctness only to find we have lost in the end. Romans 2 really addresses this by asking who are we to judge? Who are we to determine who is right and who is wrong? Does God convinces us to turn away from our sins by judgement alone? If we take the Scriptures into consideration on this, we find that judgment is usually at the end of a long road of God trying to get us to come back to relationship with Him. Paul states:

You may think you can condemn such people, but you are just as bad, and you have no excuse! When you say they are wicked and should be punished, you are condemning yourself, for you who judge others do these very same things. And we know that God, in his justice, will punish anyone who does such things. Since you judge others for doing these things, why do you think you can avoid God’s judgment when you do the same things? Don’t you see how wonderfully kind, tolerant, and patient God is with you? Does this mean nothing to you? Can’t you see that his kindness is intended to turn you from your sin? (Romans 2:1-4 NLT)

So if we are trying to reach someone how should we do it? I think we are given the answer above. We do so with kindness, love, tolerance and patience as God himself shows us. It’s kind of a radical thought that God intends to turn us away from our sins by using His kindness. After all, wasn’t Jesus an ultimate gift of kindness to a cruel world? How can we take that sentiment and apply it to our own lives, our own families, our own communities and the world around us?

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