I am a person of privacy. It has taken me a long time to accept this idea, and it is with much distaste that I make this confession. For years I have tried to convince myself that I am an open book, outgoing, and public in all parts of my life. The often used adjective, "transparent" comes to mind when I picture how I want to be described... but transparent is not even close.
If I were going to try to describe myself and my personality through images and pictures I would be a block wall, or at least a person living behind one.
I love the Word of God, I love Jesus, I love spending time with God, and a like people. I like them, not really loving many of them.
This is one of the differences between me and Jesus: Jesus loves all the people (Romans 5:8). Jesus loves them all so much that He gave up His blood for them on the cross. Jesus did this out of love, to save all of the people that come to Him in repentance and faith trusting in Him. Wow. Jesus did all of this, and I struggle with wondering if, "like" is too strong of word to use to describe my feelings.
The issue is sin. My sin and their sin. As a believer, I know that human society is affected by sin, it has become polluted by it, distorted by it, corrupted by it; and now we must live in it. So my answer, in many ways, is to isolate myself from it. This is wrong.
Our mission on this earth is not to build a great utopia where everything is perfect. The mission of the disciples of Jesus is to alleviate suffering and to strike at the root cause of injustice, prejudice, violence, and poverty by sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ with the whole world.
Matthew 9:36 says that when Jesus saw the crowds he was, "moved with compassion." Jesus is concerned about all people, the whole person, and the society in which that person lives. This is the heart of Jesus. What is your heart?
I am tearing down the walls, and lifting up my voice. What are you doing?
-dRo
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