Hello! My name is "Pharisee"

Hello! My name is "Pharisee". I am a good, upstanding person that thinks that I'm better than "those people" over there, sinning and doing things that are wicked. I don't see my own sin as I see other's. I am not as bad as I really am. 

Hello! My name is "Sinner". I can do nothing "good" or "right". My sinful flesh gets in the way every single day. 

Hello! My name is "Selfish". I want things that I can't have. I keep things instead of giving them away. I don't tell others the Truth, I just keep it hidden away inside myself.

I am disgusted when I look at myself. My apathy towards my sin. The way I won't stop and share the Truth with the people around me, even when I don't pull out the excuse (one of many) "I don't have time."

But then my Saviour comes my way and says "I can make all things new", "If you confess your sins, I am able to forgive and to cleanse them and make you righteous", and "I am light and like a city on a hill, my light (Truth) cannot be hid" and He invites me to follow Him and to be changed by His Truth. 

I believe that God lets me see myself as I really am, as an invitation to change into the person He says I can become. 

When a tapestry maker is weaving his artwork, from the back it looks like a piece of jumbled up mess. The threads don't fit together in design and it looks very disheveled. But from the front side, that same tapestry is a beautiful work of art. 
There are two sides to every story...the "back side" that we see, and then the "front side" that God sees and is weaving into something beautiful for our good.

I am not defined by my faults, even though they are many. I AM defined by my status, and that is as a child of the ONE TRUE KING, MY Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!! With HIM, all things are possible and can be overcome!!


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