Who hoo...only a month and I am bloggin' again..... philosophically even...
So while scrubbing out my fridge after somebody spilled something....looked like puke but I don't think it was~LOL~blaring my Ipod and reffing a battle between two Rottweilers I was reflecting on "Christians" and "the church". I so many times hear people say that they cannot stand the hypocrisy in churches and the judgmental attitude of Christians. And I have to say that in my years of attending different churches and speaking with a multitude of Christians I have to agree. Though I know The Bible tells us not to "forsake the assembling", I completely understand the reasoning behind so many people not attending church.
I find it ironic that The Bible tells us the greatest commandment is to "Love one another" yet we quickly forget that when somebody does something we disagree with...and we also forget that little parable where Jesus said, "If any of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." If only we, who call ourselves Christians, could follow these two simple things we could, in fact, be Christ-like.
It is so sad that we get caught up on the little things. Whether it is the right church, right clothes, right gender, right Bible, going to church, not going to church, living in sin....It is not our place to judge but rather to love. I grew up being very judgmental and though I still struggle with this I have come to realize that we are ALL sinners .....no matter the sin...sin is sin!
My mom has an old print, complete with broken glass, hanging on her wall that was my Grandfather's, and it says, "There is so much good in the best of us, and some much bad is the rest of us, that it hardly behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us"....how true this is.
I think I shall sit down, keep my stones in my driveway and remember the next time that somebody sins that I am going to still love them because guess what? I am a big fat sinner too! ....and so are you.
