Christ_empowered
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and now I'm not, thanks only to Christ. I'm not big on calling people "losers" and "weaklings," obviously--its not Christ-like and it reflects the absolute worst the world has to offer--but...yeah...the world saw a weakling. That's what's so strange...my cardinal sin in the world was being a weakling. My real main sin was being an unrepentant wretch. Now, thanks to Christ...I'm repentant, not wretched, and (answered prayer) not a weakling.
1 Corinthians 1:27. For obvious reasons, I love this verse.
I'm thinking outloud (ummm...in text...). I was thinking about it, because I"m just now at the point where I can compare and contrast worldly values vs Christian morals to any meaningful extent. The world--I think especially America--values self-reliance, good looks, success, social skills, etc. What's strange, to me, is that Christ has transformed me and any number of other formerly un-repentant wretches into more or less normal people...after we surrendered to Him, in large part because we realized our broken-ness.
I just read this Huffington Post article...'Church is for losers." Yeah, I wasn't thrilled when I clicked on the link, either. But, basically, this female Lutheran minister is saying that church is where we connect with each other in our frailty and broken-ness and faith is basically standing naked in front of God with all the bad stuff showing. I agree, of course.
In my own life, I think one reason people mess with me so much is because of what Christ has done and is doing in my life. I mean...me, of all people. Then again...as my older, wiser, friend Verna says, "Why not you?"
Ugly people aren't supposed to wake up one day and look...normal. Stupid people don't usually suddenly become smart enough for goals that seemed impossible, like a college degree and a life, especially when they were stupid due in part to heavy drug use (shock, of course, didn't help, but nobody in the world really cares about what shrinks put "losers" and "weaklings" through). "Poor white trash" (hey, its SC) isn't supposed to move in with an upper-middle/upper class family and become (apparently) "too genteel."
Its not the way the world works. Christ's work has always been against the grain of human nature and worldly wisdom. This is probably why He was crucified and why He remains controversial (sometimes hated) 2,000+/- years later. Sad thing about people...human nature hasn't changed. If Jesus decided to come back to Earth to give us a refresher course, He'd be "dealt with," one way or another.
Then there's me, and the wonderful realization that a lifetime of weakling-hood has come to an end. I mean, I'm very much a sinner saved by grace, I'm very much in need of forgiveness guidance and, at this point in my life, some sort of training so I can one day have a j-o-b, but...work-in-progress...me, probably more so than a lot of people who came to Christ less obviously wretched.
1 Corinthians 1:27. For obvious reasons, I love this verse.
I'm thinking outloud (ummm...in text...). I was thinking about it, because I"m just now at the point where I can compare and contrast worldly values vs Christian morals to any meaningful extent. The world--I think especially America--values self-reliance, good looks, success, social skills, etc. What's strange, to me, is that Christ has transformed me and any number of other formerly un-repentant wretches into more or less normal people...after we surrendered to Him, in large part because we realized our broken-ness.
I just read this Huffington Post article...'Church is for losers." Yeah, I wasn't thrilled when I clicked on the link, either. But, basically, this female Lutheran minister is saying that church is where we connect with each other in our frailty and broken-ness and faith is basically standing naked in front of God with all the bad stuff showing. I agree, of course.
In my own life, I think one reason people mess with me so much is because of what Christ has done and is doing in my life. I mean...me, of all people. Then again...as my older, wiser, friend Verna says, "Why not you?"
Ugly people aren't supposed to wake up one day and look...normal. Stupid people don't usually suddenly become smart enough for goals that seemed impossible, like a college degree and a life, especially when they were stupid due in part to heavy drug use (shock, of course, didn't help, but nobody in the world really cares about what shrinks put "losers" and "weaklings" through). "Poor white trash" (hey, its SC) isn't supposed to move in with an upper-middle/upper class family and become (apparently) "too genteel."
Its not the way the world works. Christ's work has always been against the grain of human nature and worldly wisdom. This is probably why He was crucified and why He remains controversial (sometimes hated) 2,000+/- years later. Sad thing about people...human nature hasn't changed. If Jesus decided to come back to Earth to give us a refresher course, He'd be "dealt with," one way or another.
Then there's me, and the wonderful realization that a lifetime of weakling-hood has come to an end. I mean, I'm very much a sinner saved by grace, I'm very much in need of forgiveness guidance and, at this point in my life, some sort of training so I can one day have a j-o-b, but...work-in-progress...me, probably more so than a lot of people who came to Christ less obviously wretched.
