Thursday, July 28, 2005

After writing my previous self-righteous rant about church shopping this morning, I sat down and happened to be reading Romans and stumbled across this in Romans 2:
Every time you criticize someone, you condemn yourself. It takes one to know one. Judgmental criticism of others is a well-known way of escaping detection in your own crimes and misdemeanors. 2But God isn't so easily diverted. He sees right through all such smoke screens and holds you to what you've done.

3You didn't think, did you, that just by pointing your finger at others you would distract God from seeing all your misdoings and from coming down on you hard? 4Or did you think that because he's such a nice God, he'd let you off the hook? Better think this one through from the beginning. God is kind, but he's not soft. In kindness he takes us firmly by the hand and leads us into a radical life-change.

Always amazed at how God humbles me in this kind of stuff.

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