Kindness Stops the Bleeding

Kindness stops the bleeding... when we bloody our hands by healing the wounded , we can begin the richest kind of praise... (Calvin Miller)... Not the praise you sing on the dance floor of an 80's club... or the excitement you felt when the Gators lost... but a true worship experience....

Many of us were raised in the church... we went sun mornin.. sun nite.. wed nite... and various other days for retreats... and events... we went mostly because we were forced.... many were "turned off" by the hypocrisy of the church members.....because churches are very similar to political parties.... the gloves come off... the ugliness is revealed... and many could not run fast enough from the "drama".... the "guilt"... the two-faced bad examples.... so they never looked back....

When we look at the parable Jesus was teaching the Jewish lawyer in Luke 10.... he was trying to open the lawyers eyes to the truth.... the truth was this lawyer needed to STOP studying... stop trying to prove this right.. and this wrong.... and get out there and start "doing"....

We all need to much proof... we examine the Bible and the church like a CSI one hour episode..we like everything to be solved in an hour.. the perp put away.. and everyone sleeps good.. we want the Bible... and God to "prove himself" to us.. we think because of what we do on a daily basis or what circles we are in... that we cant be a child of God... why not? because people who are subject to fail... tell you that your not?.. are these the same hypocritical people who turned you off years ago... to the church... to God... altogether...

Why do we let someone in a suit (not the pastor, but a church member)... tell us whether or not we are worthy... all those people you watched drink it up on saturdays and fight for seats at Golden Corral on sundays after church... are humans... we all fall short... we cannot let others get in our way of God... it is the best trap of all... to turn a soul away from God due to the actions of the church and its members... you may think that because of the circles your in.. and the choices you've made in life, that you can NEVER be a child of God.. this is completely false because even the person who tells the smallest of lies... is a sinner.. but is loved...

we all fall short... we are all desperately seeking the truth... the fully saturated sense of God to flow into our empty lives..its the void.. thats never fully filled in the lies of pleasure, at the bottom of a bottle, in a pill, in a drug, in a strip club, on the internet... those things are temporary... God is everlasting.. and he loves us... he loves you...WORSHIP IS NOT DESIGNED FOR THE WORTHY BECAUSE NONE OF US QUALIFY..

We do not choose... to love God.. OR be kind...WE ARE KIND BECAUSE WE HAVE CHOSEN TO FINALLY SPEND SOME TIME WITH GOD.. STUDYING HIS WORD... AND NOT JUST INDULGING OUR EVERY SELFISH NEED... when we do this.. when we stop putting "me" first...we become powerful! noone... can stop us... we can stop the bleeding.... the hurt... the ache... when we finally stop trying to heal our own wounds... and let God take over the triage.............

love yal... have a great weekend...