It's Me, O Lord
Theme of the Week: What's Wrong with the World?
Steve Brown
Wednesday, January 15, 2003
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Key Bible Verse: Greatly distressed, one by one they began to ask him, "I'm not the one, am I, Lord?" (Matthew 26:22). Bonus Reading:Matthew 26:20-25
A man who ran a grocery store during the Second World War told me about an elderly woman who came into his store just before the president announced rationing on several staples. She loaded her cart up with piles of sugar and butter. "Ma'am," the cashier told her, "I can't let you take all those things." She said, "Well, why not? I just wanted to get them before all the hoarders got here." We rarely see the depth of our own sin.
Refreshingly, the disciples had a different outlook. When Jesus announced that one of them was going to betray him, Peter didn't say, "It's got to be Bartholomew. He's been acting weird lately." Thomas didn't say, "It's got to be Peter. You remember Jesus said, 'Get behind me, Satan.'" You don't find John saying, "It's got to be Thomas. He doubts everything that Jesus has to say." Instead, they said, "Good God, it could be me! Is it I?"
Let me tell you something about me. There's no sin that I'm not capable of committing. When you know that in your head, you don't have to know it in your experience. I don't know about you, but I don't want to know from experience.
—Steve Brown in Preaching Today
My Response: I'll ask God to reveal to me a sin I've tried to justify.
Thought to Apply: Saints agree they are sinners; only sinners think they are saints.
—Peter Kreeft (college prof, author)
Adapted from Preaching Today (119, 45) by permission.
Copyright © 2003 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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