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Here’s one we’re not always so great at: “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”~Matthew 7:1-3

One of the reasons Jesus took judging off the table is because we lack the Divine quality of omniscience. We form judgments based upon an anecdote or a brief snapshot of a person. But even were we lifelong friends, our knowledge can only take us so far. We are each an enigma wrapped in a mystery. To add to the toxicity, a judgmental person often stores the selected memory of the one who has been judged and allows no grace for grace. For us to alter an opinion that has hardened requires humility. People who judge are generally humility deficient.

And that brings us back round to what we’ve been talking about in respect to answered prayers, fruitfulness and love. These are each inextricably connected. Jesus is hastening his disciples to work toward love in all things. Jesus defines it as being willing to lay down our life for another. Paul will expand on it much further in I Corinthians 13. (Feel free to read). The radical point that Paul makes is that it doesn’t matter a whit what you do as a Christian – miracles, prophecies, fancy sermons, or even giving away  your money. If it is divorced from love, it has no currency with heaven. It has all been done for show. It comes to nothing.

We’ve all, I suppose, some vague notion, an operational definition if you will, of what a “good Christian” looks like. I’ve found even non-Christians carry such notions. What has surprised me over the years is that often the non-Christian has a better notion of the ideal Christian than do the Christians.  Theirs is a reductionist argument. “He is a judgmental and unloving person and calls himself a Christian. I want nothing to do with him.” Case closed. And, to the extent their judgment of the judgmental is correct, I can appreciate the sentiment. Neither do I.

Now, the point should be obvious. That sort of standard is closer to the Spirit of Christ than any of the other lists we might compose of  a “good Christian.”  You know the lists: 1) Faithful in church attendance; 2) Serves the church; 3) Sings in the choir; 4) Tithes; 5) Still married; 6) Has great kids; 7) Works hard…etc.  You can add or subtract from the list. But here’s the thing – we can pull off all of these, and more, and still have a heart of stone in respect to love. And I’ve seen it aplenty. And, this is the part that’s puzzling…I’ve known a number of Christians who’ve mastered none from the “good Christian” list. They were mangled by life and by their own poor choices. Yet, in spite of their brokenness, or perhaps because of it, they loved well. They somehow produced the ONE fruit that mattered to Jesus and that seems to matter to an unbelieving world. Fancy that. (I’m just getting warmed up).