If I were to take you and somehow extract your life’s experiences, good and bad, and without judgement discretion or censoring, expose it to the world, how would you react? Would you feel as superior as you typically do? Would you dwell on my weaknesses, indiscretions & mistakes as you do now, or would you run and hide in shame until your show was over?
I wonder. It’s easy to criticized, condemn, spread rumors, tell lies, perpetuate misunderstandings when you feel as though you are a better person than most. You’re immune, and in your mistakes and weaknesses, you are justified. Jesus cleansed you, or your therapist gave you permission to let it go, or you take the approach that most people take and blame everyone else for your circumstances.
But if I were to expose your life in its entirety and show the reality of it, would you still be so concerned with confessing my sins for me? Or would you realized that maybe, just maybe, you failed in more ways than you had thought, you let the important things slide and only filled your lusts? Even in your ‘righteousness’ you were deceptive and only lifted your ego while crushing the rest of us beneath it’s weight?
Pay attention to your own life, don’t spend time trying to write the checklist of my weaknesses. Whether you realize this or not, whether you are justified or not, one fact remains. It’s not over until you’re 6 feet under. Don’t count yourself the winner of a race that has hardly begun. Pay attention to your own checklist, your own manual and your own stewardship. Don’t fail in your life because you dwelled on my life’s failures.
