Me:  Are you having fun with chalk?

Prodigal:  Yes, it can be relaxing.  Sometimes we just need to let loose.

Me:  As you finish, I will share.

 

This is from the book You Can Change by Tim Chester

 

The pious fellowship permits no one to be a sinner.  So everybody must conceal his sin from himself and from the fellowship.  We are not allowed to be sinners.  Many Christians are unthinkable horrified when a real sinner is discovered among the righteous.  So we remain alone with our sin, living the lies and hypocrisy.  But the fact is, we are sinners.

 

More is done with a group of sinners than with a group of hypocrites.  Who did Jesus go to?  Who did he turn and walk away from?  Who did Jesus die for?  See He died for both the hypocrites and the sinners but only the sinners really understand that and praise Him for that!

 

Acts 20:31-36

 

Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

And now brethren, I commend  you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.

I have coveted no man’s silver, or gold, or apparel.

Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

And when he had thus spoken, he kneeled down, and prayed with them all.

 

Jennifer Van Allen

www.theprodigalpig.com

www.faithincounseling.org