Don't Be Friends With Sinners

          This isn’t easy. It sounds like it. But living out this realization is much more complex.

          A few weeks back a friend of mine pointed out the following during a conversation and it has since convicted my heart. “We sin against The Lord first.” And this article, well, it’s good. There is no ladder, there is no difference. You and I are the same. Your sin last night is equal to the sin I have right now in my heart. The Lord sees the broken and invites them to a new life in which we are all loved, known, and righteous by His work. 

          A separate conversation today at lunch held a similar topic. How being in a relationship with someone first is important. Throwing words and scripture at someone continuously and praying it sticks isn’t very effective most of the time. And my friend made another great point that this article speaks of. He said, “We are on the same playing field. God did that. He came to the Earth for goodness sake to be equal with us.” Truth. Jesus became human. He took on flesh and then all our sins that were, that are, and that will be. He took them. Every last action and thought. He took them and he was killed so that we may be blessed and invited into a relationship with God.

          So I found this, and wanted to share. I don’t want to add to it because I think it does a simple job of stating the facts. And I’ve already discussed in previous posts with the book unChristian about the complexity of relationships. How crucial they are. They can be laborious, but the reward outweighs the “sacrifice” in my opinion.

http://redemptionpictures.com/2013/08/22/friend-of-sinners/