Don't leave me alone.
If you have read this blog for any amount of time, you know that I can be pretty attiment about our role as the "Body of Christ". I really don't think we understand that concept very well.
I was saved while going to youth group in high school. It was hard for me to live in an un-Christian home and try to "become" a Christian. While a few people were loving and guiding me, there were not very many people from our church that would come along side of me and lift me up.
- First: I was never told that "trying" to be good enough for God doesn't work. I failed every single day, not realizing that His sacrifice for me wasn't based on my abilities to be or do good.
- Second: No one, even teenagers, at church want to associate with the real obvious sinners. So, I felt judged and frustrated because I didn't know better.
- Third: I didn't understand anything and no one took the time to teach me. There was an assumed "salvation" and then the idea that I should just "get it".
- Fourth: I didn't know how to pray.
- Fifth: I was alone everyday with questions I was too afraid no one would answer.
I drifted from my faith for many years because I felt worthless. I was unable to attain the one thing everyone told me I had. God didn't leave me. I may have been messing up but He didn't give up on me. In my mid-twenties I was brought back into relationship with God. Being old enough to understand a little more, I asked more questions and grabbed on to the one thing that had answers, His Word.
It has taken many years and tons of support from other Christians to come to the place I am now. I had to relearn (and I am still learning) everything I had been taught to live the life I live now. I am blessed. Blessed by a God that gives His grace to me freely. I am free to live a life in response to His perfect love for me.
I serve people and share His message in response to His Word and His mercy. I know that when I see a Christian that struggles with their flesh and their unknowing that it is part of our fellowship to stand together with them. If you have been in the church your whole life or are new to the family of God, remember that some people really don't know. And YES, even in the United States, there are people and families and generations of unbelievers that don't understand Grace and don't understand Forgiveness and most of all don't know how to Pray.
Acts 2:42~47 They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer. Everyone was filled with awe, and many wonders and miraculous signs were done by the apostles. All the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need. Every day they continued to meet together in the temple courts. They broke bread in their homes and ate together with glad and sincere hearts, praising God and enjoying the favor of all the people. And the Lord added to their number daily those who were being saved.
If there is nothing else I teach you, let me teach you that we are not meant to be alone. We are to do this together. Let us come together, serve God and see His power through His entire body. We all have something to give. We all can teach the saving grace of God to one another.
Thank you for continuing to be a part of this community of believers.
Please continue to pray for Kelly H (WA) this week.
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