Hello Reader. If you find yourself with some free time, here and there, I invite you to come walk with me as I share some of my experiences in my journey with the living God. I have written about my journey in several books, but the journey is not yet complete. Can we agree that we are living in interesting days. I have purposed to share some of what the Lord has shown me the last few years and most recent.
From my first memories to moment the Lord saved me, my trials and tribulations have been varied. After I became born again, I was not faithful to the Lord, not in the way that He desired for me. I truly had no idea that He wanted that from me, much less what it even meant to be faithful to a living God. Today, I understand and confess I was rarely faithful to the Lord. As a new believer, I started with the typical: church, bible studies, fellowship, seminars, etc. I learned a lot of scripture, a lot of do’s and don’ts. It was a very scripted experience. For the most part, I cannot recall a lesson, or sermon on how to be faithful. I was a young wife and mother in a bad marriage. All that it entailed took up most of my thought life. It is possible my mind was not on the sermon on any particular Sunday. It was thirty years later that the Lord revealed to me the reason for my failure and why it was so difficult for me to faithful to Him. Let’s call it by its name, sin, but it was not anything I would have considered, or the sin that one would expect. At least I have never heard anyone articulate it as the Lord did.
I started my walk by marrying a man who pretty much lied about his relationship with the Lord. I was just a babe in Christ, but I believed God and I were solid. I believed I was marrying a man of God. My ex had grown up surrounded by siblings that were seasoned Christians, involved in one church or another. That’s how we met through a church that one of his sisters attended. It’s a long story I wrote about in my first book.
Looking back, I can appreciate that being a babe in Christ had it’s perks. I took of running. It was like being on a honeymoon. I was chugging down all that hallelujah juice. Those were some great days. Recently, I was telling my husband, how much easier it was to be a babe in Christ. When a new Christian sins, most Christians go easy on new believers. The Lord gives them abundant grace as they learn and mature. New believers are just beginning to learn and understand how the law applies to born again believers. So, there is an abundance of grace. Still, ignorance of the law does not save anyone from the consequences of the law. The scripture says,
“And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.” Luke 12:47-48
I think most of us get the gist of this scripture. It’s like grace and mercy, the more grace we are extended the more we should extend, likewise with mercy.
Why, as believers in the Son of God – the gospel of Jesus Christ, are we so quick to judge the sin of others?
We are all guilty of sin. We have all broken the law. So why is it we are quick to confront an unbeliever about his sin, but not so quick at calling out our fellow Christians? Why is that? There is a well taught reason for this.
Be back soon.
Living in the Last Hour 
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