Saturday October 1, 2011

Most believers will agree that no sin is better or worse than another. What I mean is we believe in God's eyes that to lie is as sinful and hurtful to God as murder or adultery. The Bible is very clear that we all fall short. Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Then why do we attempt to judge other people's sin worse than our own? When we do this we are losing sight of the first two commandments. When the Lawyer asked Jesus in Mathew 22:34-40 ³⁴ Hearing that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, the Pharisees got together. ³⁵ One of them, an expert in the law, tested him with this question: ³⁶ “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”  ³⁷ Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ ³⁸ This is the first and greatest commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ⁴⁰ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

I believe if we keep these two commandments all the others will fall into place. If we love God with everything we have then we will not be committing these other sins. If we love God with our all then we will automtically love our neighbor as we love ourself as that is God's moral law to us, His creation. When we love God and our neighbors as we are told here then we will be incapable of breaking any commandment and sinning. Yet we are incapable of doing this as the blood of Adam flows through each of us and therefore we sin.

 We as Christians fall short day in and day out. We judge others unfairly all the time. We tend to judge homosexuals very harshly yet we are told throughout the Bible that there is only one perfect and fair judge. Luke:37-38 ³⁷ “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. ³⁸ Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”

 Mathew 7:5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

You see when we get into topics such as homosexuality or abortions we all agree if we believe the Bible to be the inspired Word of God by His Holy Spirit that these acts are definitly sin. Yet we are also told to love our neighbor as we love ourself. No place does it say to only love our straight neighbors or people that are pro-life. We are told by the Lord to love God with all of our soul and then to love our neighbor. We are told not to ever judge another person as only God can do that perfectly and fairly yet we tend to go against the Word anyways.

I tell you the Truth my brothers and sisters in Christ, if we don't stop tryng to justify our sins as righteous and worry about our own selves we too will be judged fairly and it will not be anything to look forward to. My point is that God loves us all no matter our sexuality. No matter if we have killed a baby through abortion. He loves those of us that have committed adultery and destroyed our lives with drugs and lust. He hates all sin but through the blood of Jesus has washed away our sins and offered us to have life with Him in the Kingdom of Heaven.

I praise our awesome and loving Lord for this and I pray that I am able to stop judging others for their sins and that I can work on my life and rid my life of the sins I struggle with daily. When I am able to accomplish these goals I will be honoring my Lord God with everything I have. I will then be able to love my neighbor in a way that will also show love to Christ as well. This will never be an easy task but yet it will be a task worth accomplishing with rewards far more greater than any of us can ever imagine.