As I was finishing my lunch today a random person from work asked me if I ever felt hypocritical? A bit taken a back I asked what he was talking about, to which he said something along the lines of he saw me bless myself before I ate, but he assumed (correctly) that I sinned in other times of my life. “Absolutely not!” I answered quickly, “I pray BECAUSE I’m not perfect”. It was at this point that he probably thought he shouldn’t have tried being funny. Over the next few minutes he got a quick spiritual life lesson. I told him that imperfections aren’t bad, as long as the end goal is perfect. Lets be realistic,life isn’t Instagram. These perfect little moments. Life is messy. I took a picture out the window and then told him to take a look out of the same window. In the pic the world is neat and clean…the cars, the sky, the water. But that’s not real. In real life everything is moving in a chaotic manner. Those cars are trying to get somewhere and eventually home. The sky, may cloud up and rain or be beaming sunshine, but either way that’s going to help things grow. And the water…well for me it’s going to keep moving until it finally breaks as perfect surf-able waves. I finished up by saying that I, like the cars, am just trying to get home… Heaven. The sun and the rain, well I hope I can be the light for someone and maybe help them grow in their faith. And as for the waves, I just said surfing is awesome. But more important than all of that, I told him that Christ came for those of us that know we’re sinners.
32 I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners and need to repent.”-Luke 5:32
I’ll be praying for you all.
Remember to live the faith.
God bless.
Faith like Water 