Upon arriving early for a meeting at Starbucks this evening, I sat next to two girls (about 17 or 18 years old). As I was minding my own business, I couldn't help but overhear their conversation. Both smoking cigarettes and talking about their friends, enemies, pregnancies, and parents (all about which they had a negative thing to say).
Now as I'm sitting there eating french fries and sipping an iced chai tea latte, naturally my first thought process is "Wow, these girls' lives are really messed up. I'm glad that I have it more together than they do." But then I got to thinking, "What right do I have to think something like that? They're just like me."
Because I might not have all of the problems that they have, but I have thousands of problems that they probably don't.
But then I thought to myself (which I am doing more and more often) "Yeah, well I have Jesus." supposedly meaning 'I have Jesus, so that makes me better.'
And I then came to this conclusion: I'm not better than them, Jesus is better than all of us. Because without Jesus, who am I really? Nobody. Without Jesus I would be in the same boat that they're in. So Jesus is perfect, and we're all terrible sinners. And it's by God's grace alone that he looks at me in a different light. Now, my job is to go spread his word to people who need him.
Now as I'm sitting there eating french fries and sipping an iced chai tea latte, naturally my first thought process is "Wow, these girls' lives are really messed up. I'm glad that I have it more together than they do." But then I got to thinking, "What right do I have to think something like that? They're just like me."
Because I might not have all of the problems that they have, but I have thousands of problems that they probably don't.
But then I thought to myself (which I am doing more and more often) "Yeah, well I have Jesus." supposedly meaning 'I have Jesus, so that makes me better.'
And I then came to this conclusion: I'm not better than them, Jesus is better than all of us. Because without Jesus, who am I really? Nobody. Without Jesus I would be in the same boat that they're in. So Jesus is perfect, and we're all terrible sinners. And it's by God's grace alone that he looks at me in a different light. Now, my job is to go spread his word to people who need him.
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