Don’t allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness of God change you from the inside out.
Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn’t share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.
We need a bigger estimation of God and a smaller estimation of sin.
We need to abandon our scale and adopt God’s because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people.
Sometimes God takes your life for some crazy twists and turns.
Make rules and follow rules as needed, but don’t focus on riles. Focus on faith. Focus on grace. Focus on Jesus.
No sooner do I conquer a bad habit than I become the biggest critic of anyone who still does what I just stopped doing.
When we meet grace, it becomes the fuel of our faith. We pray, we read our Bibles, we worship and we live the purest lifestyle we can because we love a person.
But freedom starts with honesty. We aren’t doing ourselves any favors by defining our- selves as good and others as bad. Let’s just agree that we all need help, that we are all in this together.
The Bible is meant to be down-to-earth. It was written for real people facing real issues.
But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.
Rules are not proof of our spirituality. If anything, they are proof of our sinfulness, a reminder that we have a tendency toward wrongdoing and that we need help.