The iMonk talks about our brokenness before our Lord:
How can someone who has the answers for everyone one moment, have no answers for themselves the next? Why are we, after all that confident talk of “new life,” “new creation,” “the power of God,” “healing,” “wisdom,” “miracles,” “the power of prayer,” …why are we so weak? Why do so many “good Christian people,” turn out to be just like everyone else? Divorced. Depressed. Broken. Messed up. Full of pain and secrets. Addicted, needy and phony. I thought we were different.
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You people with your Bibles. Look something up for me? Isn’t almost everyone in that book screwed up? I mean, don’t the screwed up people- like Abraham, Jacob, Moses, David, Hosea- outnumber the “good Christians” by about ten to one?
God could have made us perfect. He chose not to. I may not know His reasons, but I’m pretty sure they’re good ones.
I followed the link. It was too long for me to read all of it, but I didn’t like the hectoring tone at all. It was all about how bad other Christians are. If that’s not how it ended, excuse me, but the fellow should have written a better intro if he wasn’t trying to say: “I’m angry at all these plastic Christians, and I’m better than them.” We all make mistakes, and shouting at each other doesn’t help. Speak the truth in love, not “You people with your Bibles”.
I hear you, Nigel. I chafed a bit at that too, but didn’t think it too harsh.