self-righteousness

So i am plagued by this word so much now that i feel i have to share.

First off i hate this word. it sound so nasty and it also seems like something so many people take pride in when using it aginst others.



People sitting smugly in their "principles" knowing that they are so much better than everyone else. Their sins aren't as bad, their houses are better, their jobs are better, their children are better, their lives are happier andmore fulfilled, basically their shit doesn't stink.



Please excuse my crassness....



anyway, two things have happened recently to bring me to this awful blog entry...



One: a family members notices that something in the extended family isn't right...someone needs some help and something needs to be done. one person can't do it alone, that person prays and thinks and prays and thinks and asks his spouse to help him get help for the loved one.

They come up with a plan, one they feel is benficial in everyway....they go to the family....they ask for help....they send an email....they state the facts....they ask for prayer and consideration.....they request a response.....



2 people putting themsleves out there for someone else, it isn't easy what they ask, it isn't short term what they ask....it requires commitment and care and love and sometimes unpleasantness...



and so far they have gone unanswered. every single person they have sought out, every person they have prayed for, every person who has something to contribute and is so valuable and vital...

has not answered.

has buried their head in the sand. has said it is too big, they are too busy they don't care enough.



do they think we won't move on without them?

when God gives you a burden in your heart do you bury your head in the sand?



Maybe people think they will,maybe they are never given enough credit to do something on their own, but God has given them a burdenm and it isn't the first time He has tested their faith, tested their willingness to follow.

They know they can do it....



Will you pray for strength for this couple?



the second: again with the family. a rough situation to begin with.....some kids and a broken marriage a new family for daddy, the previous seemingly discarded....

mommy goes a different way....not alone but not with a daddy.....



kids grow up and off on their own......struggling to find their way...making some decsions that aren't always right...



one gets in trouble.....he needs some help...



why does everyone in the family get up on their high horse and say"maybe it's better this way?"

why does everyone think that the "bad kid" deserves to suffer?



maybe they don't know how much he already has.



being beaten and hurt and lied to and treated unequal and even underfed for lack of caring.



Maybe for once he needs a get out of jail free card, maybe just for once.



will you pray for him? more importantly will you pray for the family that can't forgive or see past the surface and dtop judging?



I KNOW God can do great things.

I know the Lord can move mountains

I know the Lord can change hearts in an instant........



Of course i know He gives us free will.
He allows us to choose.

I can be mad at those who are passing judgement, which would make me selfrighteous myself or..

i can choose to NOT be self righteous.