More Ramblings From A Contrary Girl

Have you every felt far from God? Have you ever felt that you can never live up to what you know God wants you to be?  Is this normal and how should you handle it? I really don't know the answer to that but I think most of us have been there. We try everyday to be hands and feet of Jesus so that people see Him and not us. I fail more than I succeed at that and I should not be ashamed to admit that. If we cannot admit our failings we will never get past them. I believe as women in the Body of Christ we should be able to lean on each other. We should be able to admit or fears, shortcomings and yes, sins, to one another without guilt and condemnation. But how often do we judge one another? Have you ever thought, well at least I haven't done what so and so has done. And we go on about our business feeling pretty good about ourselves. All the while God is screaming at us to stop with self righteous crap. We forget about the plank in our own eye and focus on the splinter in our sister's eye. Christian women come in all shapes and sizes. Some of us are single with no children (me) and others are married with young children, some with teens and others have grown children. There are also single moms, divorced women, widows, etc. In the secular there seems to be a divide between stay at home moms and those who work outside the home. We need to run as fast as we can from this in the church. Run from using the Bible as a way to bludgeon others because they made different choices than we did. Now, if we see a sister making some really bad choices that are leading her far from God and she's floundering, we should in love address it. But we need to stop the thinking that if someone makes a life choice we wouldn't make that they are wrong. God speaks to each of us individually as to what is the best decision we can make for ourselves or our family. Lavish love and grace on one another and remember no matter what our life circumstance, we are all running the race to win. Don't be a stumbling block to another. The prize is too great.