People like to label others. Popular, athletic, beautiful, smart, and outgoing. People also like to judge and can be quick to label someone as good or someone else as bad depending on choices they make. Last time I read my Bible we are all identified as sinners. We all have failed, sinned, and come up short. We all have blown it.
Does that mean we are bad? If we do it right for a season does that mean we are good? No person is faultless except through the blood of Jesus and His grace. Apart from that we are all bad.
So why do people go around judging others when they are guilty of sin as well. I have experienced and drunk of the grace of God deeply. I am not the person to pick up the stone and throw it. I have deserved to receive the stoning more times than I can count but God has dealt with me in amazing grace. How can I not extend that grace to others when they mess up.
The church is supposed to be a hospital for sinners but too often we make it a sanctuary only for the saints. Yet, nobody is a saint. There are only forgiven sinners in the church and we should always make rom for others to find what we have found.
Jesus did not condemn the woman caught in the act of adultery. He exhorted her to sin no more but dealt with her in grace. Why can't His people deal with the sin of others graciously as well. Why can't we quit labeling people as good and bad. Instead let us identify people as lost and saved. The lost need to hear about the love of Jesus and taste His grace and forgiveness. The saved never need to forget that wonderful liberating truth. Jesus is the only good thing in any of us.
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