Christ_empowered
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OK. This is a general pray request, nothing specific, plus...a reminder, as much for me as for those reading.
I think sometimes, Christians forget that Jesus was poor. We also forget that He dealt not just with sinners and outcasts, but with a lot of poor people, disabled people, "society's rejects," etc. And He loved them, He sometimes healed them, etc.
I -was- definitely amongst "the least of these." I landed in a Pentecostal program for 1 year (miracle!), where they did what they could. They definitely planted seeds, and I got saved (miracle!) 5 years ago, after The Lord dealt with my heart in a big, big way.
So...now, The Lord has made me remarkably healthy, remarkably normal, I even (apparently...) have a higher IQ, which is more than a little unexpected considering how severely brain damaged I was, and...
Sometimes, --I--, of all people, can get judgmental. Verna tells me about her wayward grand-daughter, and I have nastiness in my heart now and then. I don't know what that's about, I've prayed about it, and I pray for Leslie, too, but...yeah. Not a good thing.
I got to thinking, and...I think Christians often forget how remarkably kind Jesus was (and is...) to "the least of these," the people society has discarded and destroyed. Not that I'm #1 Compassionate Christian of 2017, or anything. One reason I'm writing this is because God has been so, so good to me, and yet...I'm just now facing my own hypocrisy, my own sort of harsh, judgmental attitude. Ugh.
Its just, well...it was the Pentecostals who were there for me. ME...the deviant, devious, brain damaged flamer, lol. They saw real need, and they worked with me. So...now that The Lord has remade me and blessed me with things I probably never had before (thanks to electroshock, most of my past is sort of a mystery to me, lol), the question becomes...
will I be there for the least of these? Will you?
I think sometimes, Christians forget that Jesus was poor. We also forget that He dealt not just with sinners and outcasts, but with a lot of poor people, disabled people, "society's rejects," etc. And He loved them, He sometimes healed them, etc.
I -was- definitely amongst "the least of these." I landed in a Pentecostal program for 1 year (miracle!), where they did what they could. They definitely planted seeds, and I got saved (miracle!) 5 years ago, after The Lord dealt with my heart in a big, big way.
So...now, The Lord has made me remarkably healthy, remarkably normal, I even (apparently...) have a higher IQ, which is more than a little unexpected considering how severely brain damaged I was, and...
Sometimes, --I--, of all people, can get judgmental. Verna tells me about her wayward grand-daughter, and I have nastiness in my heart now and then. I don't know what that's about, I've prayed about it, and I pray for Leslie, too, but...yeah. Not a good thing.
I got to thinking, and...I think Christians often forget how remarkably kind Jesus was (and is...) to "the least of these," the people society has discarded and destroyed. Not that I'm #1 Compassionate Christian of 2017, or anything. One reason I'm writing this is because God has been so, so good to me, and yet...I'm just now facing my own hypocrisy, my own sort of harsh, judgmental attitude. Ugh.
Its just, well...it was the Pentecostals who were there for me. ME...the deviant, devious, brain damaged flamer, lol. They saw real need, and they worked with me. So...now that The Lord has remade me and blessed me with things I probably never had before (thanks to electroshock, most of my past is sort of a mystery to me, lol), the question becomes...
will I be there for the least of these? Will you?