Take the most important part of your life and turn it up for everyone to see. Whether it be a friendship, a habit or a hope you grasp, it has power reverberating within it. It isn't as simple a thing for you as it is for everyone else glancing at it from the outside. It is rooted in your heart, entwining every nerve directing your parts and with that it is more complex than DNA, more complicated than the oil crisis. A friend has been struggling with drug addictions for years and it is so easy to discard if in fact you watch him like I watch my Beta loungining in his bowl. But if you are my friend, it is not a simple matter of shedding your skin, like some common lizard. It is frightening, and depressing and painful. It took me ten minutes to get into the lake while we were on vacation because the water was just a bit cool. Imagine tearing off your skin because someone on the other side of the bowl says you will be happier. Israel took more than a millenia to get rid of idol worship. Why are we so shocked when Christian people still gossip, still blow up, still complain, are still lazy, still pretend they are God's most able and trustworthy servants, still lie, still carelessly break promises. I see everything so clearly when I look at you. but whenever I gaze within, I find a convoluted tangle of contradictions that never really make sense to me. I am sinner living within grace. Take this any further and you are missing the most important detail of Man. We need a Savior for every single part of us...even our dreams need to be converted by Jesus. Grace is the one area of expertise the Church most needs to master...
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