2/16/08 - Life Journal - You're All Hypocrites

Then Paul said to him, "God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit to try me according to the law and in violation of the law order me to be struck?"

Acts 23:3

He points out the hypocrisy in this situation. At the same time, using the imagery once used by Jesus, he exposed them as righteous on the outside and old and rotting on the inside.

Troubling here is the fact that we Christians are seen in the same light. Everyone knows what we're against. Everyone knows we struggle. But we fail in letting everyone know the basics first. We all sin, Jesus saw this, He loved us enough to die for us and our sins are forever forgotten. The old cheesy slogan, "Not Perfect, Just Saved". We gotta do a better job with the latter and show our own forgiveness on the former.

Father, help us do a better job in spreading Your love and the Gospel of our wonderful gift.