Among many illustrations in the Bible, i personally loved the picture of us being fallen, being sick patients waiting to be healed, and Jesus, God as the great healer.
A writer once said something like this, looking at the cruel history of Christianity, of all the roads that this faith has walked, all the sumbling blocks, all the detours, we can conclude that we are no better than any body else. But here's the main point, Christians aren't a group of elite people on earth, we are just a group of sick people, admitting we need help. All men have indeed fallen, and it's just by God's grace that we were once blind, but can now see that we are sick, and in need of help.
The Church today has many many denominations, some mock and hate each other, some greedy for money, some stay "super holy", some stay "super secular", and the list goes on. The Word of God itself, while some say there must be a representative to interprete, while other say it's Sola Scriptura. Fractions. In chinese the word to use is 一盘散沙。
At the end of the day, one thing i still hold fast is the absoluteness of God. He will judge and tell one day, who has been faithful to him, and who has been faithful to themselves. And it's no easy task for us to differentiate. An act of helping us to worship better, might be a selfish act in itself, for instance. I'm not getting into any topics now.
God must be very dismayed. It's already a few thousand years, for God's sake. But this just serves to prove that we, are indeed sick, and gravely ill. Spiritually. God's love is indeed great, and it's depth, can only be more then what's enough to take on the sea of our sins, betrayal, disrespect, dischord, and again, the list goes on.
Dear Lord, you came to heal us. Jer 3:22 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Jer 3:22 你們這背道的兒女啊，回來吧！我要醫治你們背道的病。 But it's going to take our whole lifetime for it. Forgive us O Lord. Do You weep in heaven for us? Dear Lord, all the more we know we cannot come to You by our own fallen, limited understanding. Yet, the Holy Spirit seems so elusive to us. May we also act on what we can dear Lord. May our every step, be as an offering to You. Forgive us. Heal us.
In Jesus' Name. Amen
A writer once said something like this, looking at the cruel history of Christianity, of all the roads that this faith has walked, all the sumbling blocks, all the detours, we can conclude that we are no better than any body else. But here's the main point, Christians aren't a group of elite people on earth, we are just a group of sick people, admitting we need help. All men have indeed fallen, and it's just by God's grace that we were once blind, but can now see that we are sick, and in need of help.
The Church today has many many denominations, some mock and hate each other, some greedy for money, some stay "super holy", some stay "super secular", and the list goes on. The Word of God itself, while some say there must be a representative to interprete, while other say it's Sola Scriptura. Fractions. In chinese the word to use is 一盘散沙。
At the end of the day, one thing i still hold fast is the absoluteness of God. He will judge and tell one day, who has been faithful to him, and who has been faithful to themselves. And it's no easy task for us to differentiate. An act of helping us to worship better, might be a selfish act in itself, for instance. I'm not getting into any topics now.
God must be very dismayed. It's already a few thousand years, for God's sake. But this just serves to prove that we, are indeed sick, and gravely ill. Spiritually. God's love is indeed great, and it's depth, can only be more then what's enough to take on the sea of our sins, betrayal, disrespect, dischord, and again, the list goes on.
Dear Lord, you came to heal us. Jer 3:22 Return, ye backsliding children, and I will heal your backslidings. Jer 3:22 你們這背道的兒女啊，回來吧！我要醫治你們背道的病。 But it's going to take our whole lifetime for it. Forgive us O Lord. Do You weep in heaven for us? Dear Lord, all the more we know we cannot come to You by our own fallen, limited understanding. Yet, the Holy Spirit seems so elusive to us. May we also act on what we can dear Lord. May our every step, be as an offering to You. Forgive us. Heal us.
In Jesus' Name. Amen
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