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A love letter to my family...
Posted : 6 Nov, 2012 12:43 AM
As it often happens, blessings come when you least expect them. Tonight was one of those blessings. I found myself really sad at the dis-unity of this "Church", this is the best word for it I think. We are in a ministry of sorts, I like to think so anyway. Well as it turned out, I was approached this evening to do some "brain working" or "spirit working" by a beloved brother. There were a few concerns discussed, ideas exchanged, and as often happens, not much seemed to be accomplished. The key word being "seemed".
One thing I've come to learn (albeit slowly) is that things don't always happen in "our time frame". Patience and long suffering seem to be an unavoidable fact of life (Christianity). I know I'm the type who likes to dive right in and solve an issue, fix a problem, "get 'r dun"! It rarely happens that way in real life though does it?
One of my gripes with Christianity is the conflict, the dis-unity, the strife, etc. Everyone is right, and everyone is wrong. We're so quick to point fingers. We're so quick to kick someone when they are down instead of helping them up. We're just downright mean to each other. I don't like it. I don't think the Father and Son enjoy it either. I can't picture the agony Christ went through being honoured by our behaviour. He did not suffer for us to do this to each other. We need to pull together as a family. That IS what we are! Every person here, man or woman, who calls Christ Lord and King is my family. Granted, some of our family are weak, sick, likened to a terminal cancer patient, dying that spiritual death. I've been in that "terminal cancer ward" many years. Only now am I beginning to recover, and much slower than I'd like.
Everyone here is at a different stage in their walk. Some are strong in the Lord, some are newly "weaned off milk", some are babes, and some haven't even been born (again) yet.
I thought I was a strong shepherd type for many years. I was mistaken. At best I'm just now getting into the meat and potatos but I still need that milk from time to time. Pride and vanity held me back. I was (and still am to an extent) one of those "I'm right, you're wrong and going to hell" types. I'm trying to change that attitude. I need help, from all of you. I've met some truly beautiful people here. People who had virtually no scriptural knowledge or schooling by comparison, yet their level of humility and the Holy Spirit within them shamed me in the extreme. I thought I was "all that" yet I found I was nothing. As I am fond of saying..."humility is the beginning of righteousness." It truly is.
I would like to see my family healed. Thinking about how far we've fallen makes me sad. Perhaps I'm too emotional, perhaps I'm just a big baby. Perhaps this situation is worth crying about.
I may not agree with all of you on points of scripture or theology but you are my family. Loving some of you is very difficult at times. And I can imagine, for some of you, loving me can be trying as well. I'm just a simple fool who's trying to love my family the best way I know how.
I'd like to share a couple movie clips that relate what I'm feeling, and maybe what some of you should be feeling as well. No, I'm not pointing fingers or singling anyone out. It's a sadness, but a good sadness. A Godly sorrow if you will.
These are clips from Jesus of Nazareth. Yes, there is un-scriptural screenplay here, however, I ask all of you to look past this and see the power and beauty of the message portrayed. Please take 20 minutes of your day and watch this. I relate to Peter when he says "Forgive me Master, I'm just a stupid man." The scene at the end of the Parable of the Prodigal Son is very beautiful to me for I AM that stupid man. Cry with me. Cry for each other, cry for the Lord. Just cry.
Jesus of Nazareth 10/28
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=fvwp&NR=1&v=qH5gmRQLIIM
Jesus of Nazareth 11/28
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Y-Dqp00N_w&feature=fvwp&NR=1
Let's not make Christ's sacrifice in vain.
Please, lets all work together for HIS GLORY.
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