EVERY PERSON

“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;”

Romans 3:23 KJV

We don’t mind pointing the finger of guilt at someone but it’s a lot harder to point the finger at ourselves, isn’t it?  None of us are perfect.  Every person has sinned and that includes you and me.  This is why I have told you to keep your eyes on Jesus and not on me, on your pastor or your Sunday school teacher.

There was only one perfect Person Who ever lived and His Name is Jesus.  One of my pastors said in a sermon “If you will make sure your own heart is in right standing with God, you won’t have the time to judge and condemn others.”  My pastor was right because it’s a full time job making sure I’m right with God.

There have been a lot of murders lately at schools which breaks my heart and I know it hurts our Heavenly Father and breaks His heart.  We may never have killed a student with a gun but if we have ever said criticizing and hateful words to a student, we have killed them emotionally.  May God have mercy on us.

It is time that we become encouragers to one another and especially to our pastors.  Pastors sacrifice time from their own families to minister to us.  They sometimes have to get up in the middle of the night to go to the hospital.  We need to remember that pastors are human.  They cry and hurt just like we do.

“So the carpenter encouraged the goldsmith, and he that smootheth with the hammer him that smote the anvil, saying, It is ready for the sodering: and he fastened it with nails, that it should not be moved” (Isaiah 41:7).  Are you encouraging people or are you saying and doing things that hurt them?

Joanne Lowe

May 28, 2018