Sit Your Buster #@@ Down

                Sit Your Buster A** Down

One thing I've noticed in Christian circles is that people forget where God found them.

Not where He found Moses.

Not where He found Paul.

Not where He found your pastor.

Where He found you.

You know where God found you.

You know the habits.

You know the foolishness.

You know the bad decisions.

You know the mistakes you made over and over again.

You know the simple things you couldn't get right.

Yet somehow, after getting saved, some people walk into every theological conversation like they arrived with the answers.

Bro, be honest.

God saved you.

That should make you grateful.

That should make you humble.

Instead, some people become the loudest voices in the room.

The thing that always gets me is how quickly people forget their own weaknesses.

There was a time somebody had to remind you to bathe.

Somebody had to tell you to stop getting high.

Somebody had to tell you to stop sleeping around.

Somebody had to tell you to show up to work.

Somebody had to tell you to stop spending money you didn't have.

Somebody had to tell you to take care of your own responsibilities.

You struggled with earthly things.

Simple things.

Basic things.

Normal things.

Yet now you're offended because there are heavenly things you don't immediately understand?

Jesus said:

"If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?" — John 3:12

That verse should humble all of us.

Christ Himself acknowledged that heavenly things are harder.

Deeper.

More difficult.

So why do people act shocked when they don't understand everything?

Why do they act shocked when a doctrine is difficult?

Why do they act shocked when sincere believers disagree on hard questions?

The problem isn't that you don't understand everything.

None of us do.

The problem is pretending you do.

The problem is turning confusion into confidence.

The problem is forgetting where God found you.

You know your weaknesses.

I know mine.

You know the areas where you struggled.

I know the areas where I struggled.

So come fellowship.

Come worship.

Come study.

Come learn.

Come enjoy God's grace.

But stop acting like you arrived here as the authority.

God didn't save you because you had everything figured out.

He saved you while you were lost.

He saved you while you were confused.

He saved you while you were making mistakes.

He saved you while you were headed in the wrong direction.

Remember that.

Because the church would have a lot less confusion if more people remembered where God found them and approached difficult subjects with gratitude instead of pride.

Sometimes the most spiritual thing a man can say is:

"I don't know yet."

And sometimes the wisest thing a former buster can do is sit down, listen, learn, and thank God for His grace.