Every once in a while, as I’m talking with a friend they
will something like this, “I’ trying to make myself better”, or “I need to make
myself better.” When I hear this my
heart breaks and I want to say, “STOP” (insert the zipper sound here) do you
hear what you’re saying?
I want to remind
them that, not one of us can “make ourselves better”. It’s not possible, if it were possible,
would we have needed a savior? Ummmm no,
(just in case you were not sure of the answer I was going for). But we
do need a savior because it’s impossible to make ourselves better. Only one person can do that, you guessed it,
God.
I want to remind them that, we are all human and even as a
Christian we are not free from sin. By that I mean we are not perfect. We may fall into a mud pit, we just don’t
have to stay there. Praise God for that!!! We can ask God to lift us out of the pit and
set us on solid ground. The awesome
thing is that he loves us soooo much that he wants to do that for us
anyway. We just need to ask him.
I would also remind them that, if we’ve asked God to wash us
and make us clean, the only person we have to be better than is the person we
were yesterday. We have a God who does
not show partiality. He does not care if you are the president or a homeless
beggar; a multimillionaire or a pauper.
The ground is level for everyone. He sees everyone of as a sinner for whom he
died. We cannot do one thing to make our
self-appear better before Christ. If God
does not compare us to anyone else we don’t need to compare ourselves to anyone
else either.
So relax, if you feel the need to better yourself, go to God
let HIM better you. It’s much easier than
trying to do it yourself. You should
know that God loves you just the way you are warts and all.
