Well everyone, I just wrote the main post but thought of something else to share, which is something I learned the hard way. And the thing is to figure out and even profess regularly that none of us are Jesus. People say, well, of course we don’t claim that, but actually it is very common to get so carried away with trying to be like Jesus that people can’t admit the gaping difference that accounts for why our faces get ground in the dirt every day by life’s worldly abusers. Example: When I go to the ER for my gallbladder, I don’t say to the guy in a stretcher, “Arise and walk, your sins are forgiven.” I don’t say to a neighbor asking for cereal, “Before the rooster crows, you will deny me three times.” I don’t say to a lady on the bus, “Your daughter is healed at this very moment.” I mean obviously I am joking, but people’s re-enactments of Jesus’s life go that far off track all the time. Maybe it is a cute blessing for God to see us so weakly imitate our hero like children. But frankly there are many people who get trapped in an acting habit that can only be relieved by secular society. What is a real example, you might ask. Well for one thing, look at our cultural problems. Think of the things some people had to do to survive, while the rest of the insulated church seemed to stay righteous. It’s either sin, or not risking sin enough to reach people. Both things are what I am talking about. And often the exhausted and exasperated people who have to give up on their idealistic Christian ambitions actually are in that moment, more like Christ.
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