SCARS

When I was a young boy my body use to be covered with scars. Scars from crashes on my bike and skate board, scars from falling out of trees, (that one hurt), scars from sports. I think the testosterone in me really likes the scars, they are manly. Each scar tells a story of a battle or adventure that was survived..

I think as followers of Christ we should have more scars, scars that remind us of the battle that  we are in with Christ.  I was reading Mark 14, where Christ deals with a major scar of the battle, the scar of Betrayal. Judas betrays Christ for a couple of bucks…

We must first remind ourselves of two things betrayal can only occur between friends, not people that are acquaintances, or people you pass by in life. Betrayal can only occur with  people that you have a connection with, a friendship, a bond of trust has been developed..

Unlike you and I Christ knew he was going to be betrayed by Jesus, yet he still loved him, still walked with him, still ate with was still willing to connect with him. Now many might say that Christ did that just to fulfill prophecy, but in saying that you negate the humanity of Christ. Christ gives us the example of how to connect and love the lost world. He calls us to be in the world not of the world, which means we must be willing to like Christ did, connect with the lost world and love it with the love of Christ….

Are you willing to connect and love one that is nothing like, you the one that has nothing to offer you on the outside, the one that commits the sin that you detest the most. Christ connected and loved the lost world…

Will you…..

~ by pastorgrant on January 14, 2008.