Friday, May 17, 2002
Friday, May 17, 2002
I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very
thing I hate.
Why do people stand at the altar
of a church and promise that they will be loyal to that
church and support it by their prayers, presence, gifts
and service, and then promptly disappear? Why did they
bother to join in the first place?
And most disturbingly of all, why do people claim
the name of Christian, follower of Jesus Christ, and then
live in a way that is totally contrary to everything for
which Jesus stood?
And yet we know it happens. "Why do you call
me,'Lord, Lord,' and not do what I tell you?" It is a
mystifying question.
Thank goodness, our God is a God of grace.
(Romans 7.15
NRSV)
That is one of the most mystifying questions in
the world. "Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not
what I tell you?"
Lord Jesus, yes, I am a sinner, and I am in great need of your love, grace and forgiveness.
Amen.
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