Behavior

Knowing that I want to write more, the question is what to write about. I have so many things that consume my day. First is my love of the Lord, my family, homeschooling, heath topics (such as thyroid disease, gluten free, cleaning out the junk in your food, natural remedies), library/reading, and animals. As you can see much to choose from. Those that might read this range from highschool friends to homeschool friend to church friends. So I decided to tackle a difficult topic but one near and dear to my heart.

I grew up in the church. But church was more of a Sunday thing. Yes, I would see my father reading over his up coming Sunday reading or know that he was off to vestry meeting. And my parents taught us to be charitable. The one thing that was not done was discipleship. My parents didn't sit down and show how God views things. And during my teen years I started to walk away from Christ, fall into the worldly veiw and make poor destructive choices. Relationship choices and alcohol choices.

There were two things that were my excuses to walk away. One was I had made bad choices and didn't feel that God wanted me back. Yep I listened to the lies of the devil. My larger excuse was one I still here today from people. So and so wasn't acting like a Christian.

The record I want to set straight today, when people accept Christ into their hearts it makes them new, the price is paid, they have salvation. What that does not make them, is perfect! Christians are not perfect my friends! In fact we have a huge target on us, the devil doesn't like it when we accept Jesus. So the devils slings so many lies at us and sometimes we start buying into them. Is that an excuse for our behavior? No it isn't. But it isn't an excuse for you to not accepting Christ and follow him either.

I have been hurt by many people in my life. Yes, some of them are Christian and many were not. Christians have bad days, days that we don't listen to God's promises. Days when we look at the worldly view of more stuff makes you happy and keeping up with the Jones'. Days when we fail to show love and mercy the way Jesus would. Yes, we are sinners too.

The media loves to show the Christians who are behaving badly. But all to often they do not show you the millions of stories of churches/Christians showing God's love. Churches that help clothe and feed the homeless or low income. Churches that get school supplies to families who can't afford their own. Churches who welcome the addicted and broken and change lives.

I am deeply sorry for the hurts that anyone has that is reading this. Know that God loves you and longs for a daily relationship with you. It doesn't matter what you have done, he adores you.

My prayer is that rather than allowing the hurts of others to keep you from a relationship with Christ, that you allow Him to heal you of that pain. Your salvation is the most important thing, that relationship with your creator. Please don't allow people to get in the way of that.