I find a multitude of folks with a love of quoting scripture merely to prove a point. Yet if I peer into their daily lives with Christ I see very little real ministry to hearts in need.

 

Some have church experience but no real Jesus on the front line experience.

 

Knowing something and understanding it are two different things. Often Christ must teach you your error with an experience that will leave you feeling rather foolish.

 

Many christians today, full of themselves I cannot place in a room with broken hearts. They tend to murder them again and again because they have a theology that is void of the heart of Jesus. A Pharisaical spirit has their tongue and their heart. They are nothing short of dangerous.

 

Sometimes I hear Jesus whisper, “Be silent,” simply because the one speaking is a religious spirit rather than a surrendered Saint.

 

In many born-again believers is a real need for deliverance.

Deliverance from pride.

Deliverance from religion.

Deliverance from self-righteousness.

Deliverance from piety.

 

Semantics often stirs the pot, very often, and we have a degree in studying with no common sense in the real-life experience of Jesus living in us. We have yet to see the Living Word active.

 

When He really lives in you, you’ll follow Him and do what He does. You’ll be moved by compassion and be more inclined to look for the pain in a heart rather than hurling scriptures at their sin. You’ll understand after working with the Holy Spirit that once He begins to heal the pain, the sin tends to go.

 

You’ll learn how often you are wrong and repent profusely for thinking you could have ever thought you had it all figured out.

 

You’ll see how you sliced and diced the scriptures in ways that were not true to Jesus, but only true to you.

 

You’ll be really slow to call someone a false teacher or a false prophet because in all honestly the same accusation could be made against you merely because in any given season you didn’t know yet what you didn’t know.

 

Your focus will be on tending and mending rather than pointing and parading. For one day, friends, Jesus for all of us takes our pointing finger and gently turns it back to our own hearts. In that moment is a sudden revelation that you’ve sorely misrepresented Him again and again, and He wasn’t pleased about it in the least.

 

Jesus. Loves. People.

 

Don’t you think it’s time that we did too?

 

Perhaps if Jesus stared into our eyes and peered into our hearts, He would wreck us by showing us how very little we actually do know.