So many Christians are so consumed with themselves, that their witness in this world has been destroyed. Gone are the times in which we considered ourselves our brother's keeper. Gone are the days in which we were just fellow Christians worshipping the: One, True, Holy God. We are more concerned with peoples' appearance than their hearts; with their prestige, than their souls. Scripture tells us that: "our righteousness is as filthy rags". Romans 3:10 says, "There is none who are good, no not one". God owes us no favors, yet we cannot repay His grace and mercy. I submit that Christians, whether individually or collectively, will never be the influence we are called to be unless, we have a true biblical understanding of who we are. We are sinful, depraved, ungodly, filthy rags. And yet Christ came and died for us in spite of ourselves. Humbling…
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good point. we start from feeling miserable about ourselves all the time, and then we learn what God has made us ("seated with Christ in the heavenlies" Eph. 2:6). before long, we forget that GOD has made us successful, and we start to think of ourselves as sufficient. then it's only a matter of time before the world we think we've made begins to cave in (Deuteronomy 8:17-20).
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