Open Vents

I am soooo spiritually ugly right now!

Every time I turn around, I keep finding myself in a place where the Christian company I keep ... and they are Christians ... is overwhelmingly complacent in their faith and walk with God.

It makes me sick!

What I DO NOT understand is how we can read our Bibles daily ... hoard to church every time the doors are open ... process, profess, profess and then when a situation arises that may cost us a moment outside of our "it's really all about me" mindset, throw out a flippant "I'll pray for ya" and run for the hills. It is no wonder that this dying world that we live in has such an ugly opinion of Christianity as a whole and Christ in general. This kind of behavior makes my "attitude of gratitude" scream in anger, and I always have this mental image of my Lord sitting on the steps of the temple weaving a whip right before He went in and ran out all of the money changers.

Every time my phone rings, or I open my e-mail, I am bombarded by stories of hurting saints who are having one bad spiritual encounter after another. And, I'm not talking about the evil one and his ploys either. I am talking specifically about Christian encounters where the ones in need of help, assistance, a shoulder to cry on or just genuine compassion are being railroaded by fellow Christians .... always, and I do mean always, because they have their own "stuff" to deal with and won't take the time to get over themselves to lift up a hurting brother or sister in Christ!!!

And, when God sends these folks to me, I find myself spending more time undoing the damage from their last encounter than I do actually helping to address the hurt that started the entire chain of events.

Sometimes folks actually need for us to pray them through a hurting situation, but sometimes what they really need is for us to get over ourselves, get in the dregs with them and beat out a victory! That is the love of God! My personal hurt is that we have taken the love of God and perverted it into some temporal miscue that fits our own lives, instead letting it transform us into the Children of God He created us to be!

WE HAVE MISSED IT COMPLETELY!

The Bible clearly tells us to be doers of the Word and not hearers only, and I don't believe that was a suggestion!

From the dregs ....

Kalena Weaving