Audio： Accept Yourself for What You Are — Basilea Schlink

God lives and works today, but often we don't experience his action in our lives because we're too self-righteous. We're too busy trying to be right. Today's meditation by Basilish link takes a new look at what it means to be right with God.

Repentance Versus Self-Righteousness

It's truly a miracle when someone weeps tears of sorrow for his life and lives continuously in a state of repentance. Self-righteousness. Claiming one's innocence and in doing so often blaming God is an inheritance from Adam and is found in all of us.

The Human Desire to Excuse Guilt

Some of the worst criminals have this urge to exonerate themselves. They claim innocence in the face of the most heinous crimes. Prison chaplains write that there's no place like a prison to find so many self-righteous people who claim they are imprisoned unjustly.

However, the same holds true for the most pious churchgoers. We human beings simply want to always be right. We see no need to change no need to repent. We excuse ourselves and refuse to admit our guilt.

How Self-Defense Produces Anger and Bitterness

In defending ourselves, we often become angry and abusive to others. We think it's perfectly right to react in this way because everyone else has been so disrespectful and has mistreated us. It doesn't matter that we've been furious and abusive our feelings were hurt.

Is that our fault if we're so sensitive and easily upset or perhaps we've been misunderstood and mistreated in our marriage. Or we're filled with bitterness envy and hatred because of our failure in life.

Blaming God and Refusing Jesus Christ

How can we be different when God has made us the way we are? We can go on and on with our list unaware that in the end we're blaming God in Defending ourselves. We refuse Jesus Christ admittance to our life.

He the Savior and bringer of happiness. Wants to make our life joyful full of peace and full of light. But instead we blame him for giving us our bad dispositions our unstable nerves or our lack of ability.

We blame him when we have to suffer for our anger and bitterness our little lies or adultery even. We make Jesus the guilty one blaming him rather than ourselves. By so remaining in our self-righteousness, we hurt Jesus.

Jesus as Savior for Those Who Repent

In Truth, we're joining the ranks of the accusers the Pharisees who condemned him to death. We're blaming Jesus who died for our sins who is Savior comforter and the source of all joy. Jesus is the Savior.

But only for those who want to be saved. Who will come to him as sick needy miserable sinners? Today Jesus is calling us to repent. He's waiting in his boundless love for those who will bow themselves under their sins.

For those who will say yes, I have sinned. I'm guilty. Please forgive me. He's waiting for us to respond in this way so that he can help us and remake us into his likeness. Will you come to him today with all your sins?

He's waiting for you.

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