Running While Dark

For the past couple of days, I haven't been able to consider... what if God had a zero tolerance policy? Ultimately, we know He does, because we will all stand in judgement before Him one day.

In the meantime, His grace is abundant; His mercies are new every morning.

This isn't a license to continually make wrong choices, bad decisions and live in conduct contradictory to the Word of God. Sadly that needs to be pointed out, as much, both within the Christian community, as well as society-at-large, use God's grace and mercy to continue in their wrong-doing.

But what if, based solely on the suggestion of wrong-doing, God called deal-breaker, game-over.

No call to repentance.
No opportunity for confession.
No extension of grace.
No gift of forgiveness.
No invitation towards redemption.

As I look at community, whether on-line, or in-person, we seem to be moving ever-farther away from being people of grace, forgiveness and second chances. And please, don't you dare read what I'm not writing. Accountability, transparency, consequences... there are necessary. But if they are not balanced with the knowledge and understanding of the truth, then we are both living and judging lies. Which is hard to do for a people that denies the Truth of God, while claiming some moral grounding that is not grounded in Scripture.

We seem to be running in the dark, rather than walking in the Light.

On this #communitySaturday, pray that would we be seekers of truth. May we be people who would extend grace and forgiveness and seek confession and repentance. Pray that we would be sensitive to the work of God in our own lives as live as examples of what God desires to accomplish to those not living in the redemptive work of the cross of Jesus Christ. May the Holy Spirit help us to live with an eternal perspective and to be voice of truth in a world of darkness and even darker lies.

For we were once lost,
But have now been found.
Called out of darkness
Into His glorious light.
Having confessed our sins
And redeemed by the blood of Christ.
For the glory of God.

- PNC