July 25, 2016

WHAT ABOUT MY FREEDOM?

Luke 7:31-35

And the Lord said, “To what then shall I liken the men of this generation, and what are they like? They are like children sitting in the marketplace and calling to one another, saying:

‘We played the flute for you,And you did not dance;We mourned to you,And you did not weep.’

For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’ The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’ But wisdom is justified by all her children.”

Personal Challenge

Just as the Pharisees in the day of Jesus were fickle in their religiousness to recognize either John the Baptist or Jesus for who they were because neither of them fit their vision of a prophet or the Messiah, so too do so many of us in the church today fail to recognize the hand of God around us or in our everyday life. We hold on so tightly to our own opinions, our own rights to do what we want to do, that we neglect the commands of our Lord to love God and our neighbor above ourselves. we claim that because we are free by modern American standards then we can do what want in our lives and that God, just like everyone else, must adjust their standards to fit ours. Lord, have mercy! Lord, have mercy! Lord, have mercy!