Path To Blamelessness

Pointing fingers at the failing of others is a good pastime to partake in if you don’t want to spend time considering your areas for improvement.

I’ve noticed with some of the people that I admire that they don’t really have that much time, energy or inclination towards the finger pointing exercise. They are not self-absorbed either, to be fair. Somehow they manage to strike that right level of devotion to loving others as they also remain aware of themselves in terms of strengths and failings. It’s as though they wake up and look at themselves in the mirror – do the outside check and then go beyond to check what’s going on inside them. They then resolve to do and be everything pleasing to God in serving others and then spend the rest of the day doing just that. They are not perfect – they are well aware of that and they don’t give the impression that they’re better than others. What they have is that healthy dose of humility to confess their faults and receive the forgiveness from God that is always available and not let their mistakes derail them.

Those are really admirable qualities in those people that I admire. So that impressses on me the reality that all that I read about in scripture about men and women able to live blameless lies isn’t fantasy. It’s possible. Whatever has happened in the past, there is still enough hope for today to start and walk on the path towards to blamelessness.

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For His Name’s Sake

Shalom

C. L. J. Dryden