what i fear.

If you think you are too important to help someone, then you are just fooling yourself.

I fear that we, as Christians, no matter how counter culture we try to be, love to be labeled. Because if I am not THAT, then certainly, I am THIS.

My understanding is better than yours, clearly, because of who I read or discussions I take part in, or... anything along those lines.

Truthfully, I believe it is detestable in the eyes of God.

We jump out of one box, and straight into another. Pride.

It is the ultimate blindfold that makes us think we are on the road to safety because our ways of masking straight up hatred and for lack of better term, insecurity, have truly convinced us that we are better than the next guy.

For real, who are we? Who am I? Have we all forgotten that the Son of Man, who had NO BUSINESS in taking pleasure and love in us, has done this? Us, the worst of them all. Paul says that so clearly in his letters; he the worst sinner of them all, yet Christ came down and took notice of his life.

Have we forgotten that we are all to pose the same question in the face of Almighty God?

"Who is man, that you are mindful of him?"

Yet, we tend to reverse the question and ask man, "Why should I be mindful of you?" Because we have filled our minds to the brim and have calculated the algebra of God out, because we have finally figured out what the variable is... yet, our horizontal relationships have fallen to the wayside.

The very thing that Christ left in our hands, we basically have said: HOLD ON. Simply placing it to the side because of what certain theologians (mere men) have decided and called truth.

I am guilty; absolutely. However, I am reminded so clearly sometimes of how ugly this looks.