The Worst of Me

What is the worst of me? Have I committed murder? Have I cheated on my taxes? Have I betrayed someone who loved me, or pushed someone aside to get ahead?

It doesn’t matter, it could be a simple white lie, it might be that I’ve turned away from someone in need when I’ve had the ability or resources to give them a bit of help.

When we envy another, are jealous, think evil thoughts, or hope ‘they get what’s coming’, that is sin.

James 4:17 says, Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin. Just knowing what the right thing to do causes us to sin if we don’t do it.

All of these may seem like little transgressions, the kind the world easily dismisses, but in the eyes of God they are not little, they are just as sinful as the ‘big’ sins and they are the worst of me, the worst of us.

We often compare ourselves with the worst person we can think of; Hitler, Stalin, Ted Bundy because it makes us feel good about ourselves, well at least I’m not as bad as those people!! But God doesn’t grade on a curve, He doesn’t compare us with any of His other created beings, He compares us with His standard which is perfect righteousness,  which means none of us can measure up.

Romans 3:10 says, there is none righteous, no not one.

So all sin is falling short of the righteousness of God.

When we accept that and confess our sins and accept the sacrifice  of Jesus, the Gift of God to save us from our sins, we give to Jesus, the worst of us. And He takes it, He throws it into the bottomless sea (Micah 7:19), as far as the East if from the West (Proverbs 103:12) and He remembers it no more.

Now God is the best of me, the best of us!

It’s eternal suicide to reject that offer of the best of God for the worst of us.

I hope and pray you will accept what God has to offer

Brenda