So I’ve found myself with spare time and a quiet dorm. Sounds like the perfect opportunity to update my neglected blog.
I don’t often share with people what I am currently learning from God — to my own discredit — but tonight I don’t feel like being novel or pseudo-intellectual, and so that is precisely what I will do.
Since last year, God has been convicting me of my own lack of love towards other people. I tend to be overly judgmental and critical, self-righteous, and proud. I often think the worst of people and their intentions, all the while ignoring my own ulterior motives and self-glorifying activities. I do not love the unsaved as Christ does, and, perhaps worse, I do not love the Bride of Christ as he does. If the world is supposed to know us by our love, then I have failed miserably to identify myself as a Christian.
That is the area in which I am working the hardest, yet I still fail so much! I understand more what Paul meant when he said he wants to do good, yet still he does not do it.
I consider going on to speak of why the ecumenism of the Anglican Church is so attractive to me, but that may be driving me too far off topic. Suffice it to say that love is an area which not only I, but the Christian Church as a whole seems to neglect. May God have mercy upon us for wrongly dividing his Bride.
One Lord, one faith, one baptism.
