HOW I MADE LEPERS
Deep soul-searching isn’t like going fishing. Most of the time fishing is a mindless activity for me. It doesn’t really matter if I catch a fish. It’s peacefully relaxing. Soul searching is an entirety different matter.
Soul-searching usually starts with God fishing for me. He hooks me on the lure of deeper revelation. It begins with a Bible verse that extraordinarily grabs my attention. In a passage from Mark 15:1 in The Passion Translation, I noticed that Jesus was hooked by some religious folks.
“Before dawn that morning, all the ruling priests, elders, religious scholars, and the entire Jewish council set in motion their plan against Jesus. They bound him in chains, took him away, and handed him over to Pilate.”
Being the director of a ministry puts me in the category of someone who teaches about God. I may not be a religious scholar, but I do stand in the pulpit of churches sometimes. I hang out with scholars and church authorities. I can’t identify any of them as folks who would crucify Jesus, but what about me? Do I have any character traits that don’t line up with God’s grace and forgiveness?
Searching my soul lead me to deep places in my heart and I found a few things that needed to be cast out of my character.
I was guilty of creating lepers in my mind. There were people who I considered unclean and unworthy of my time and ultimately - unworthy of my love.
Thank God He has grace when I don’t.
FORGIVE ME GOD for MAKING LEPERS
I look down on folks who act the way I used to act.
Who do the things I used to do.
Embracing Your Love,
I left my former life behind.
But sometimes I look with disdain at those people
who are like the me that I used to be.
I turn away with a disapproving look.
Haughtiness wells up in my pride-filled chest.
I walk away from them as if they are unclean –
modern-day lepers who might infect my goodness.
My thoughts arrogantly believe that I’m so far away
from doing things that displease You.
I’m sorry God for creating lepers.
You desire that none of us should perish.
You want all of us to know Your Love deeply.
I can’t love through a disapproving look.
I can’t love with a haughty attitude.
I can’t love unless I believe as you do –
that all are worthy.
It doesn’t matter that I’ve stopped living my former life of bad ways, if I judge people and avoid them because they’re not worthy of who I’ve become.
It’s like I’ve come full circle -
with a new set of bad ways that are sinful.
I may not get drunk on alcohol,
but I’m drinking deep draughts of disdain.
I may not fog up my brain with hallucinogens,
but I look at people through a haze of haughtiness.
Forgive me God,
I’m beginning to see how religious scholars and holy folks
put Jesus on the Cross.
I don’t want to live life
as a hypocrite or a holy phony.
Come into my heart and cleanse my conscience.
Create in me a burning love
that torches my pride and blazes away hypocrisy.
Help me to see folks with Your eyes
and love them the Way Your heart does.
In Jesus name.
Amen.
✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️
“When pride comes [boiling up with an arrogant attitude of self-importance], then come dishonor and shame, But with the humble [the teachable who have been chiseled by trial and who have learned to walk humbly with God] there is wisdom and soundness of mind.”
Proverbs 11:2 AMP
✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️
Saturday December 4, 2021 6:18 AM
Doney Park, AZ
#ywap4God #JLYASDW
Wrirren by a man fishing for humility.
Deep soul-searching isn’t like going fishing. Most of the time fishing is a mindless activity for me. It doesn’t really matter if I catch a fish. It’s peacefully relaxing. Soul searching is an entirety different matter.
Soul-searching usually starts with God fishing for me. He hooks me on the lure of deeper revelation. It begins with a Bible verse that extraordinarily grabs my attention. In a passage from Mark 15:1 in The Passion Translation, I noticed that Jesus was hooked by some religious folks.
“Before dawn that morning, all the ruling priests, elders, religious scholars, and the entire Jewish council set in motion their plan against Jesus. They bound him in chains, took him away, and handed him over to Pilate.”
Being the director of a ministry puts me in the category of someone who teaches about God. I may not be a religious scholar, but I do stand in the pulpit of churches sometimes. I hang out with scholars and church authorities. I can’t identify any of them as folks who would crucify Jesus, but what about me? Do I have any character traits that don’t line up with God’s grace and forgiveness?
Searching my soul lead me to deep places in my heart and I found a few things that needed to be cast out of my character.
I was guilty of creating lepers in my mind. There were people who I considered unclean and unworthy of my time and ultimately - unworthy of my love.
Thank God He has grace when I don’t.
FORGIVE ME GOD for MAKING LEPERS
I look down on folks who act the way I used to act.
Who do the things I used to do.
Embracing Your Love,
I left my former life behind.
But sometimes I look with disdain at those people
who are like the me that I used to be.
I turn away with a disapproving look.
Haughtiness wells up in my pride-filled chest.
I walk away from them as if they are unclean –
modern-day lepers who might infect my goodness.
My thoughts arrogantly believe that I’m so far away
from doing things that displease You.
I’m sorry God for creating lepers.
You desire that none of us should perish.
You want all of us to know Your Love deeply.
I can’t love through a disapproving look.
I can’t love with a haughty attitude.
I can’t love unless I believe as you do –
that all are worthy.
It doesn’t matter that I’ve stopped living my former life of bad ways, if I judge people and avoid them because they’re not worthy of who I’ve become.
It’s like I’ve come full circle -
with a new set of bad ways that are sinful.
I may not get drunk on alcohol,
but I’m drinking deep draughts of disdain.
I may not fog up my brain with hallucinogens,
but I look at people through a haze of haughtiness.
Forgive me God,
I’m beginning to see how religious scholars and holy folks
put Jesus on the Cross.
I don’t want to live life
as a hypocrite or a holy phony.
Come into my heart and cleanse my conscience.
Create in me a burning love
that torches my pride and blazes away hypocrisy.
Help me to see folks with Your eyes
and love them the Way Your heart does.
In Jesus name.
Amen.
✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️
“When pride comes [boiling up with an arrogant attitude of self-importance], then come dishonor and shame, But with the humble [the teachable who have been chiseled by trial and who have learned to walk humbly with God] there is wisdom and soundness of mind.”
Proverbs 11:2 AMP
✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️✝️
Saturday December 4, 2021 6:18 AM
Doney Park, AZ
#ywap4God #JLYASDW
Wrirren by a man fishing for humility.
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