Pursuing Holiness

The trip from outrage to humility can be completed in less than fifteen seconds.  I saw this comment on Daily Kos, emphasis added:

I believe that people are fundamentally unequal to each other, in ways that cannot be reduced to simple matters of race, creed, sex, etc.

I believe that we each have the potential to find parity with God.

I believe that, in order to do this, we need to renounce all those other trivial things that distract us. Such as, for example, nationalism.

I believe that self-determination must be protected if we are to allow people to reach parity with God. This emphatically includes sexual and reproductive self-determination.

Nonetheless, I believe that we’re going to have a very difficult time, as a group, unless we address the environment, health care, unconstrained growth and our national deficit — sharpish.

My first thought was, “How arrogant!”  My second, “You don’t know anything about the omnipotent, holy, God.”  My third, “This isn’t really that different from the way millions of people who profess Christianity think; we just cover it better.”

• We claim Jesus as savior, but do not accept him as Lord.
• We persistently fail to acknowledge our sin and mortify it, while at the same time strive to be “good” as though to win God’s approval - or worse, our unacknowledged goal is to win man’s approval by at least appearing holy.
• Instead of contemplating and living for eternity, we put entirely too much focus on achieving worldly, political goals.

It’s a difference in degree, not in kind.  I’ve been plucked out of the fire, not because I deserved it, but because God chose to show me mercy.

written by Laura