Your Not Alone. I'm Horrible Too!

If this were a question and answer time and the question of the day was: Who has a sin issue but is embarrassed about admitting what it is?

I promise, I would be among the first to throw my hand into the sky and wave it back and forth like a politician trying to get the fence sitting voters to land on his side of the fence. I would shake it about as if I were trying to fling my hand from the very arm to which it was attached. I would...well, I think you get the point. I have problems. Some of them are embarrassing. You know why? *shhhhhh* it’s because i'm afraid people might realize i'm a sinner...

WHO CARES!?

What is wrong with me? We are all bad people. We all have our default set to the wrong things, but that isn't the issue. The issue is that we(I) have become so arrogant and proud that we(I) have stopped talking about it. Some where around the 2nd grade I started believing that I should hide things from people. Truthfully I should be sharing my problems with the world!

I'm not espousing the idea that we should go out and air all our dirty laundry to everyone. Not at all. What I'm saying is that we cannot start the process of overcoming our flaws if we are too scared to admit that we have flaws to one another.

Tricia  noted the other day that many times in church, people confess all their "Christian" sins. They don't read their bible enough, or they don't pray as often as they should. They thought a mean thought about that guy Larry at work. They sped on the way to the Sing!Speration. They told their friend the coffee was decaf when it was really triple caf espresso. These are the "Acceptable" sins. Let’s just assume we all do those things. Can we please, as a church (I'm referring to all people that claim the name of Jesus Christ) just admit that we do bad things?

We swear. We lie about one another. We look at porn. We gossip about the pastor’s wife. We masturbate. We cheat on our spouses. We are gluttons. We belittle our leaders. We are proud. We think we are better than our neighbors. We steal. We are greedy. We are human.

"HOW DARE YOU!" You may proclaim with a sense of indignation. I dare, because I know people. King David cheated on his wife. The Apostle Paul was a murderer. Peter was a liar. Solomon was a man whore. What makes us assume we are better than these? I know I am just as awful as all of these men and that means the world to me! If God could use those guys, he can use me just as well!

You see, God doesn't need talented people. He doesn't need perfect people. Heck, he doesn't even need smart people. God needs humble people. People that are willing to admit that they are sinners and that anything good that comes from them must be an act of God in their lives. I don't know if I am that man yet, but I want to be.