Your whole life you are told to not judge others and that is actually not the take away point of this lesson. The take away is grasping the idea of how diverse God is. When I pray to God I often forget that other people have an intimate prayer just like I do. Fathoming the fact that God listens to every single prayer is amazing because we all feel like we are the only ones talking to him. God hears from the homeless the hurt the wealthy the normal every single day and he knows how to handle each and every one of them. We all have the great chance to meet a variety of so many different people in just one day as well.
How We Are Put Right With God
"But not God's way of putting people right with himself has been revealed. It has nothing to do with law, even though the Law of Moses and the prophets gave their witness to it. God puts people right through their faith in Jesus Christ. God does this to all who believe in Christ, because there is no difference at all: everyone has sinned and is far away from God's saving presence. But by the free gift of God's grace all are put right with him through Christ Jesus, who sets them free. God offered him, so that by his blood he should become the means by which people's sins are forgiven through their faith in him. God did this in order to demonstrate that he is righteous. In the past he was patient and overlooked people's sins; but in the present time he deals with their sins, in order to demonstrate his righteousness. In this way God shows that he himself is righteous and that he puts right everyone who believes in Jesus."
Above in Romans 3:21-26, God puts out the statement of a lifetime. God has set us all right even if we are white, black, Asian, Chinese, or all of the above. God looks past all of the blemishes on every one's face and goes straight to the heart. It is so rewarding thinking that there are people out there just like me that pray the prayers similar to mine and understand the feelings I feel like no others have. You know, I have always wondered why God created such a vast array of people on this planet. I do not believe we all look different just because of sin...I think God intended for a different kind of love. Christ dwells for us to look at our neighbor that is much different than us and to just love them. Of course Christ wants to look down from his cross to see a variety of people surrendered, but what if we all came hand in hand?
This topic may seem like it is going nowhere and I feel as if I have not a lot of detail to expand upon. I had the image burned into my mind that the cross is set up in all of our lives daily and at the end of the day everyone can be seen at the bottom of it on their hands and knees. It is such an amazing site! God can and does reach so many people with so many different ways and ideas! We are all a piece to the puzzle and without one piece is can never be fully complete.
"In the same way, though we are many, we are one body in union with Christ, and we are all joined to each other as different parts of one body." ~Romans 12:5
We all walk through this life NEVER being the absolute same as another on this earth and when we all arrive at the cross we are all deemed the same through God's eyes. He sees us all as his children and loved ones. Yes, we all have different relationships with him and he knows us all differently but we are all JOINED through him. We can never be separated for he aimed to keep us brothers and sisters through him. We are never to be many bodies through Christ but ONE. We are all the different parts that are essential to the coming of the cross. You can take this lesson as not judging others or paying close attention to what is around you but I challenge you to see the different things in your life as different people. There are so many aspects to our lives and sometimes they do not directly connect to Christ but at the end of the day they need to come together to look and be the same for and through Christ. If the things in our lives can not surrender their selves before the feet of the Lord then maybe it is evaluation time.
Prayer Warriors:
(Let's try something new! Let us be the prayer warriors like Christ made us to be!)
~What can you thank God for what he is given and doing in your life?
~How are those around you?
~Is your relationship with Christ safe and sound?
~The future...are you preparing?
~The world is broken...do you see the areas that need a special shout out to God?
~Do you see the glory in the worlds diversity?
~Does the worlds diversity reflect the true glory of Christ?
~How do I make the different aspects of our lives line up at the end of the day to the cross?
~And of course pray for anything that lies on your heart tonight.
....Just run through these questions and read them through your mind while you say your night prayer or take a question per day and make it your own or even encourage others with it.
"If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea the is driven and tossed by the wind." ~James 1:5-6
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