One of those moments

"Christ took the death that I deserved and gave me the life that He deserved" -Pastor Scott

I would say that I have known this truth for quite some time, but I can't say I've every heard it put this way and it really just hit me hard when I did hear it.

It's really a nice way of restating one of my favorite passages, Romans 3:23, "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."

What I wonder is how we as the church, myself included here, have come to the point of entitlement.  Somehow, we've decided that this is just what we deserve, along with all the other blessings that God gives us. This is so incredibly wrong though.  We deserve NOTHING and He deserves EVERYTHING!  Yet, Christ is the one who gave up EVERYTHING for me and you.

So my next thought to ponder is what would my life look like if I lived like I deserve nothing.  And whatever if other Christians and eventually the Church lived the same way.  Would we finally regain some of our "differentiation" back that we've lost when it comes to comparing us and the world.

Just some thoughts from the mind of me.....