One thing do render my faith helpless and in limbo is the comparison I make with people in similar circumstances. When I have a situation that I feel like taking to God in prayers and my attention becomes drawn to people of faith in similar circumstances, I tell myself what better right do I have to been to eager to escape such situation. Yeah I know prayer is not just about getting the problem out of the way yet my mind makes me think I have no bigger moral justification to think I should be seeking to be out of the situation when better people were in similar or worse circumstance. Comparing themselves with themselves they are not wise (2Cor 10:12). The story that comes to mind is the parable of Jesus about a businessman who went out to hire workers to his field at different hour of the day yet paid them equally. The people that were hired early felt it was injustice to be paid equally. However the business owner paid the workers according to the bargain he had with them and the pressing need for them (Mattew 20:1-16). Legalist think that way: feeling they merit anything by their right acts, being brilliant or sophisticated. Nobody deserves anything by acting right because such self proloclaimed righteousness is a filty rag. Just approach Him through the grace, blood and death of Jesus and you petition are taken in and granted.
Shalom
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