Stones
I was sitting in church this morning with a wonderful feeling of peace with God and with myself. I was thinking it has not always been like this. The Lord spoke through my thoughts and said; “the reason you now have peace here is because you have stopped throwing stones at the church
The Lord then brought to mind what He had said when they were going to stone the woman caught in adultery. “You without sin cast the first stone.” They all dropped their stones and walked away.
We have a big problem in our country right now; we all stand with our hands full of stones. We are all throwing them right and left.
The church is not perfect. It has made a lot of mistakes. So has the government, so have you. There is not a perfect church out there, they have all sinned.
Jesus said in Mark 7:15 There is nothing outside the man which going into him can defile him; But the things which proceed out of the man are what defile the man.
I remember as a child growing up I helped dad pick stones in the field. Every time the ground was plowed and harrowed there were more stones. Big stones and little stones, we would then make a stone wall with them. We did not throw them at one another!
Then I grew up and had all the answers and I started throwing stones, in my family, in the church and everywhere I went. I was good at finding just the right stone to throw. Now, I don’t have all the answers, I am sick of picking up stones and throwing them. I just want to press on and upward to the high calling in Christ Jesus
How blessed is the person who has dropped all their stones; they will find peace!
It seems that in our human nature we get some kind of satisfaction throwing stones, but as Christ is formed in us we lose that satisfaction. Maybe we will keep throwing stone until Christ is formed in us. That may be the measure of how much He has changed us. Jesus was not a stone thrower.
I expect we will always have folks ready to stone us for one reason or another. The interesting thing is when we have dropped all our stones; the stones thrown at us don’t touch us anymore.