I will guard my heart and continue to put all my hope and faith into Jesus, not faulty men on this earth. Despite the fakes, I will continue to love them as Christ does for us. Christ doesn't want us to have to live up to a list of 230108 peoples rules and regulations. He wants us to put our faith in Him. Hence, I don't want people to have expectations of me that I have to follow 2342234874 of their rules. I don't need to do what you think is right. You don't need to do what I think is right. We are all different. We all make mistakes. No one here on this earth is perfect. No one will ever be able to be perfect and follow a list of do this or that. They will try, and fail. But when they fail they will try and hide it because they feel shameful. Which we know doesn't always end well. The truth will always be known. If not by man, God knows it all. But God! He doesn't give a crap about any of that. He wants us to love Him and trust in him 100%. It's one thing to say we trust Him, it's another to actually put your trust in Him and live a life that is pleasing to HIM. Not you. I don't care what anyone thinks of me. I have to please God. After all, He is all that matter and why I am here.
I have to admit that I have sinned. Confess your sins to one another, right? The famous scripture; treat others the way you want to be treated. I twisted that and actually thought that I should treat the people the way they treat me. I took that amazing scripture out of context. I should have been treating them the way I would want to be treated, not the way they treated me. You should never stoop down to someone's level like that. Some people will never be able to admit they sinned. Isn't that ironic?
One day every knee will bow and confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. I can't wait for that day and I pray everyday Jesus, come quickly. Maybe if everyone starting calling out to God and pray for him to come quickly, He would. But there are people who don't want that, because they want to continue to stay on this earth and do their own wills and ways. Sound familiar? Yep that's right, there are stories in the Bible of people who did this.
This post has been completely random and out of no where. I was reading some of my daily blogs and happen to log in to mine and start blogging. I let my fingers type what needed to be typed. Your way is not right and my way is not right. The only way that is right is through our Heavenly Father. All He wants is for us to put our faith in Him and share the beautiful news of Jesus Christ with others. If you haven't given your life to Christ and are reading this. Please do. Please pick up a Bible and read it every day. If only for 5 minutes, you will hear God speak to you, I promise. It doesn't matter where you come from, what you've done, what you think you're going to do. Your life is a mess just like everyone else's and guess what? God is working with you through your beautiful mess so that He may be glorified, not others.
Good reads and references:
Ephesians 2: 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast.
Luke 6: 31 [a]Treat others the same way you want [b]them to treat you.
Revelation 22:20 He who testifies to these things says, “Yes, I am coming soon.”
Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
Matthew 9:10 While Jesus was having dinner at Matthew’s house, many tax collectors and sinners came and ate with him and his disciples. 11 When the Pharisees saw this, they asked his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”
12 On hearing this, Jesus said, “It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy, not sacrifice.’[a] For I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.”
1 John 1:8 If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we claim we have not sinned, we make him out to be a liar and his word is not in us.
1 John 2: 7 Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard. 8 Yet I am writing you a new command; its truth is seen in him and in you, because the darkness is passing and the true light is already shining.
9 Anyone who claims to be in the light but hates a brother or sister[d] is still in the darkness. 10 Anyone who loves their brother and sister[e] lives in the light, and there is nothing in them to make them stumble. 11 But anyone who hates a brother or sister is in the darkness and walks around in the darkness. They do not know where they are going, because the darkness has blinded them.
Luke 7:36 When one of the Pharisees invited Jesus to have dinner with him, he went to the Pharisee’s house and reclined at the table. 37 A woman in that town who lived a sinful life learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee’s house, so she came there with an alabaster jar of perfume. 38 As she stood behind him at his feet weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. Then she wiped them with her hair, kissed them and poured perfume on them.
39 When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner.”
40 Jesus answered him, “Simon, I have something to tell you.”
“Tell me, teacher,” he said.
41 “Two people owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii,[a] and the other fifty. 42 Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he forgave the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?”
43 Simon replied, “I suppose the one who had the bigger debt forgiven.”
“You have judged correctly,” Jesus said.
44 Then he turned toward the woman and said to Simon, “Do you see this woman? I came into your house. You did not give me any water for my feet, but she wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. 45 You did not give me a kiss, but this woman, from the time I entered, has not stopped kissing my feet. 46 You did not put oil on my head, but she has poured perfume on my feet. 47 Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven—as her great love has shown. But whoever has been forgiven little loves little.”
48 Then Jesus said to her, “Your sins are forgiven.”
49 The other guests began to say among themselves, “Who is this who even forgives sins?”
50 Jesus said to the woman, “Your faith has saved you; go in peace.”
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Until next time,
Shayna
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