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“Behold, I send my messenger before your face who will prepare your way,
the voice of one crying in the wilderness:
‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.’” (Mark 1: 3)
John the Baptist came to straighten crooked paths for the Messiah. He knew that the world had…..
The Bible tells us to “Judge not, that [we] be not judged,” so why does the world consider Christians so judgmental? I think in our zeal to be Holy like He is Holy; we often use God’s criticism of religious insiders to divinize our desire to judge secular outsiders. We fail to see that God’s sternest words were reserved for the priests and not the pagans. Jesus was also kinder to outsiders than He was to the religious elite. He didn’t condemn the Samaritan woman, even though she was a sinner, yet He…..
Mankind knows it is flawed but inappropriately uses that knowledge to justify finger wagging and not mirror gazing. Humans recognizes sinfulness in a neighbor with a noisy rooster, but fails to see it when they lie to a spouse or steal pencils from work. We are quite eager to sit in the judgment seat and prosecute the crimes of…..
