Jesus Christ Blog

It was a bad day to begin with. One of those mornings nothing went right. My seven-year-old decided I needed the coffee ground up ahead of time and decided to assist me by grinding it all into the kitchen sink. The paper never came, there’s water leaking in the cellar and something scratching in the wall. So I turned to a devotional and found someone there from the vantage point of a picture-perfect Christian life (at least they’re not telling me otherwise) pointing out to me the one thing I need to do to get my life together. Well, I don’t care what that one thing is; I can no more do it right now than I can make coffee in the kitchen sink.

Don’t these guys have anything better to do than to sit in their offices and try and figure out another way to tell us what’s wrong with us? That’s unfortunately what you get from a lot of “helpful” books and preaching — a new angle every week on what you’ve got to do to better yourself, or stop doing in order to get better. Why is it that when I seek comfort, I so often find a finger wagging in my face, so that the end result is, I feel even worse? Now I have one more thing to add to what was already wrong wi

th me. Not that any of what is taught is even wrong; it’s just that you never hear that the messenger is having any problems with the message, and so the problem must be with me. And of course everyone wants to be happier, better and more mature, so here it is. Do this and stop doing that. Follow these simple steps. This will do it.

We do not change overnight, nor do our entrenched ideas and beliefs. Nevertheless, this online community exists to recall to our hearts and our minds that God calls us to walk alongside one another, to connect, and to trust Him to work His love through us.