September 25,2012

   I didn’t realize it had been so long since I posted my last blog. Due to personal contact, e-mails and phone calls, I am going to continue posting to my blog. There really hasn’t been much happening in the Jones household. I take every opportunity I can to go see our little Colton. He is growing bigger and more beautiful everyday. I have had the chance to keep him several times and I just hold him and look into his precious face. It is like holding as angel in my arms. What a love he is!

     I have been reflecting on some of the things I have been learning over the past months. God has been teaching me so much to help me grow spiritually. As I look around I wish I could share some of the things I am in the process of learning from God with people I have contact with. I fear sounding pious or judgmental, but I want so much for the ones I love to have some of the blessings that come with knowledge from God. These thoughts have been in my mind and on my heart for several weeks and I have come to the decision that God wants me to tell you about them. I know I am taking a chance, but didn’t Jesus every time He spoke?

     One of the things I have realized is that it is not enough to know the Word of God, to learn it, to study  it, even to meditate on it. Those things we need to do, but most importantly we must LIVE the Word of God.  When we leave the presence of a stranger they need to realize that there is something different about us, something great, something they would like to have.

Over my many years of being a Christian I have been in many churches with many different people in various stages of their Christian life. I have watched as the leadership of Christian ministries have fallen in to terrible sin. Their lives were false, the only truth was their sin. I am reminded of a book that I read twice many years ago. It was In His Steps by Charles Sheldon. A group of people in a church pledged for a period of time they would make all their decisions based on  what would Jesus do in this situation? It changed their lives. Occasionally it cost them much and many of their acquaintances thought they had gone off the “deep end” of Christianity.

     Anyway, this book gave me much to think about. I have to admit that I did not take up the idea of the book and live it, even though it did impress me. Lately, though, I have been contemplating the fact that this is a good way to live. We Christians tend to turn away from those we know are living in sins. We “look down our spiritual noses” at them. I’m talking about people who do drugs or alcoholics,  homosexuals are a big target of our disdain, also unwed mothers and couples living together without the benefit of marriage. You know, sins are all the same to God. He does not see them at different  levels as we do. That idea is of our own making. We too ,sin but our sins are different than those we sometime judge. I ask the question, “Did Jesus ever send anyone from His presence because they were sinners? Didn’t He allow a prostitute to wash His feet with her hair. Wasn’t He condemned by the Sanhedrin for keeping company with Publicans and sinners? Isn’t the Gospel is for everyone? If a gay or a prostitute or even a Muslim should come to a place where the Word of God is spoken, would we deny them that opportunity? What Would Jesus Do?

     The day is coming when we are all going to have to live the Word or renounce it. Where will I stand? I pray for the courage to do what Jesus would do.

     Enough of my soap box epistle.

     I will post this as my “coming back speech to my blog.” I will take tomorrow to bring everyone up to date with what is happening in my very blessed life.

     I love you all.

     Mary Margaret

 

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