Today it is the wrong image that Christians sometimes get (and give). We are to be like Christ, but we are human, so sometimes we aren’t. Today from two different people I got that Christians sometimes are so unlike Christ that they turn people away, so far away that they are actually repulsed by us. It hurts me inside so much that I want to cry. It isn't fair that they have been hurt like this by us humans, and it is God who gets the bad rap.
I don’t ever want to be that Christian. I am sure that there are things that I have done that have. I am on a journey of becoming more like Christ and am working daily to be the person He wants me to be. I wish I could apologize to every person who has ever been hurt by someone and it has effect their image of Christ. No matter what we do, Christ still came to this earth to give us eternal life. There is nothing we can do to change that. Christ is knocking on the door of everyone's heart and all we have to do is let Him in.
I guess all we can do is stick to what we believe. To do our best to represent Christ in a way that would give Him all the glory, and never take it for our selves. We can pray that these hurts are taken away by the true love of Christ. We need to be the salt of the earth, and let the light of Christ shine.
posted by Carrie @ 10:03 PM
2 Comments:
I hear ya sista'...that is one of my big pet peeves as well.
I know what you mean--that happening makes me hurt on the inside with real pain and sickness. And I hope, like you, that I will not ever be one to turn someone off to Jesus Christ our Lord because of some way I misrepresent Him!
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