Tonight Janice showed us all how duplicitous the human heart can be. If you are watching "I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!" you know what I am talking about. I am torn between feeling badly for her and being nauseated by her shenanigans.
Any time I see something that reflects such base human behavior I have the same reaction... because that is me too. Here is the first "super model" who is beautiful on the outside but ugly on the inside. Please don't try to tell me that we are all basically good either. That argument just doesn't hold water if you read the news or live in the same world I do. So if we are all messed up, what's the use pretending everything is good when it isn't?
Well there is hope and here is how it works. God has given us a free pass on our ugliness if we will let Him. Granted no one is ugly all the time but if you served me up a three egg omelet using 2 perfect eggs and one rotten egg, what kind of omelet would it be? So to be honest we are all rotten and fall far short of perfection. Let's admit that much anyway.
I need God and so do you; to get us out of the mess we are in. He can do it and we cannot. So why all the stalling? Let's get down on our knees and beg for forgiveness and healing from the filth of our lives. And when we mess up and jump back into the dirt from which He pulled us, so what? I expect nothing less; knowing what kind of person I am. But I also know something about God and He will keep on helping us as long as we want Him to do so. His compassion and love are never ending.
There is a price to be paid for failure - but He paid it all for us. The only thing we need to keep in mind is that when we keep wallowing in the mud and filth, there will be a consequence and our growth into the person He wants us to become is slowed or stalled.
God places His Spirit in us when He adopts us into His family. So you can be sure that if you belong to Him, He will not let you rest if you aren't living right. But that's a beautiful thing; to think that He wants to help us that much.
So buck up Baby and when you see ugliness in other people, remember that's you too and only placing your trust in God will get any of us straightened out.
