Responsibilities

this week has been a plethora of one certain theme.  Usually when something happens more than once in my life, especially in quick succession, I perk up my lil ears, because God is SAYIN' something. 

So here's what's happened. My friend wrote a personal blog about sin and response.

My other young friend, and previous sg girl, wrote an apology.

One of my friends is stumbling in her faith because of a careless comment made by another friend.


Here's what grieves my heart.  Deeply.  This body of Christ that is supposed to be helping each other on toward God.  Spurring.  Correcting gently.  Encouraging.  Edifying.  Building up. 

We are eating each other up. 

Brothers and sisters.  Take off the judging glasses.  Take off the prideful attitudes.  See the inside of the people you are called to love like Jesus.  Guess what, I've done the judging thing.  It doesn't work out so well.  Pride, anger and self righteousness got me pretty much nowhere.  If correction needs to be made, make sure it is righteous.  It is done in love.  It does not come from self righteousness.  It is done gently. 

Romans 2:1-2
You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge the other, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things.

Romans 2: 17-24
if you rely on the law and brag about your relationship to God; if you know his will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law; if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in the dark, an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth— you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal? You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? You who brag about the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”


We are responsible for those we lead.  We are responsible to God if we cause them to fall or fall away because of our lives. Because of our pride.  Because of our unmerciful hearts. Because of unwise words.

Let's search ourselves before we point fingers and throw stones.  Or careless words.