This seams to be; our national pastime, you can see it in the news, books, lawyer commercials, and as long as we can blame someone (and maybe sue them), everything is made right and good.
Maybe not.
There was this one time; that, well; lets look into the record and see…
Mark 14:17When evening came, Jesus arrived with the Twelve. 18While they were reclining at the table eating, he said, “Truly I tell you, one of you will betray me—one who is eating with me.”
19They were saddened, and one by one they said to him, “Surely you don’t mean me?”
20“It is one of the Twelve,” he replied, “one who dips bread into the bowl with me.
We find out; that Judas; is the guilty one, but interestingly, all of the eleven others; still asked, “is it me”.
How come; none of the others; knew what was going on in Judas’s life? I know Judas was there because of what he decide would do, not because he would be made to do it (free will and all). Still, “Am I my brother’s keeper (guardian and protector)?
Before we go marching out to battle the evil and the wrong, maybe we should check to see what we may have buried in our tents. I recall another account; of three guys who; thought G-D would overlook, (surely not I) and take them to victory, honor and protection; just like He had done before. However; these men; these leaders, had some known sexual misconduct with the women in their group, abuse of power with taking more than was rightly theirs and lack of personal moderation; gluttony (there’s a word that doesn’t get out of the dictionary much). You may remember them, a father and two sons, that all died in the same day.
In our groups today; we can find, drugs, sexual misconduct, greed, hatred, liars, oppressors and the silent.
Ezekiel has a G-D perspective about a righteous man that thinks he has stored up enough right ways and deeds, that when he chooses evil (not all bad, just some favorites), he is still okay. G-D said, that he will die for his chosen sin. (G-D not being a respecter of persons; the soul the sins will die). Don’t mistake extended; patience and grace, for unlimited license to sin, and don’t imagine that we have no sin, it’s all grace; (In Him we live and move, and have our being).
We don’t have any standing, to say to others, anything, until we go first (judgment begins at the house of G-D). and the famous, Choose today, Who we will serve. Who we choose, will determine; the answer, to the “is it me”
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