WHAT WOULD JESUS DO

Thursday, July 2006

We have all heard the expression and seen the wrist bands and key chains. What would Jesus do sounds like a simple, innocent enough thing. Well, it depends on who you ask. I actually had a young lady tell me Jesus would give out condoms to teenagers.

We are not to add to nor delete from the Word of God. What it says is what you get. People are so busy looking to make what they do right that they change the meaning to fit their actions. Years ago God convicted me about my jewelry, and I took it off. My sin was I would flaunt my jewelry. I wore a big diamond on my finger and long dangling earrings. Was the jewelry wrong? No, it was my showing off the jewelry that was wrong. I would not leave the house without all of it. Now the jewelry is not important to me and if I put it on fine if not fine. It is not who I am.

I have never read in the Bible that I am to wear no jewelry. But I know a lot of people who taken scripture and twisted it to say they should not. Just like a woman's hair is her covering. It does not say do not cut your hair. I have seen women with hair to their ankles. One lady I know had to get three ladies to help her do her hair, it actually laid on the floor. What purpose is served?

The Bible tells us plainly we are to love the sinner and not the sin. God created man to be with woman. After marriage of course. He destroyed complete towns because of this, enough said it is wrong. I have a few friends that have choose to
live this life style, do I hate them, no. Do I judge them? No.

They know where I stand and that this behavior is not accepted in my home. One young man told me what he loved about me is I treated him no differently than I did others. It opened the door for me to talk to him about Jesus. That door will always be open for him and others. I know a couple of young ladies who have had an abortion, and my heart goes out to them. They acts were wrong. They took a human life. The awful part is they do not know yet that God will forgive them.

All around us people are taking the Word of God and changing it into the word of man. What would Jesus do, exactly what He did do, complete the Word of God from the Old Testment.

God does not change. His Son, Jesus, came to do the will of the Father, and He is not going to change. We do. But that is our own choosing. He is the same, yesterday, today and tomorrow.

So, when you hear that expression, be honest with yourself. WHAT WOULD JESUS REALLY DO?

Let us remind you that it simply boils down to several things. It is not the outward appearance. Yes, we are to dress appropriately, speak the right words, conduct ourselves in a Godly manner. IT IS OUT OF THE ABUNDANCE OF THE HEART THE MOUTH SPEAKTH. Ladies, let us remember that as we age long hair only makes us look older. No, we don't want that.

Look at the churches all around us. Are they run down, ugly buildings? Oh no, they are beautiful. They are constantly being painted, sometimes when they don't even need to be. We have to have the most expensive carpet, the most beautiful pews, pulpits, lighting and the choir has to have outstanding robes. The flowers have to be special ordered each week. How many of us go to churches where if we brought in a bunch of home grown flowers wouldn't be laughed out of the place? That building that we attend is not the Temple, we are the Temple of God. We were raised in an era where we had our "Sunday go to meeting clothes" and our "everyday clothes." Why? Don't we know that God sees us and loves us no matter what clothes we have on?

Why should we only love our Christian brothers and sisters? Don't we already know the love and grace of God? How many times have we rejected someone cause of the way they are dressed or the fact that they smoke and do all the things we believe that are worldly?

Because of our actions, once again we have possibly killed that person's desire to come to know and love the Lord as we do.

God's blessings to each of you,

rECj/LJG