Maintaining the Proper Relationship
March 29, 2008 10:25 amhttp://www.rbc.org/utmost/index.php?month=03&day=25
A person who is a beautiful saint can be a hindrance in leading people to the Lord by presenting only what Christ has done for him, instead of presenting Jesus Christ Himself.
I friend of mine once relayed a story to me about a yearly award ceremony for grade school Christians at a church or an academy or something. Every year they would give out a T.U.R.K.E.Y. award. Each letter stood for something and the whole thing added up to “The Best Christian of the Year Award”. My friend seemed to be haunted, years later, by the standard of this person’s achievement… especially the Y part, which stood for Yieldedness. Perhaps someone could accept such an award as an early adolescent, and humbly agree that they are indeed a Thankfully Un-hateful Righteous Kind Enigmatic Yielded individual… but I believe this kind of recognition gets much more difficult to swallow as life goes on. Our behavior is not who we are. We are people that need a savior in a billion distinct and unique ways. If we pursue this relationship we are fortunate to see parts of our life and behavior redeemed over time. Someday we might even achieve T.U.R.K.E.Y. status according to some church committee, but what do we care… we know God and we know the truth about ourselves. Some men are better than others (in thought and deed), but the better ones seem to be preoccupied with better things than figuring out if they are better or worse than others.
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