Hello Guys and Gals!
This one is a tough one to write because it deals a lot with my past! I am talking about being a drug addict and what people think of them. Too often I see how people who do not and have not done drugs look down upon those who have, even if they are now clean and beaten the addiction! This frustrates me. I'm here to let you know that a drug addict is just like everyone else. They make mistakes. Big ones even. But just like everyone else, they sometimes find their way out of that life and fix their life. Yet others are unforgivable of them because they had the audacity to have done something so socially unacceptable in the first place.
Well, let's talk about that. I've seen and met people who have never done drugs or even touched a drop of alcohol who do not have the compassion and love in their hearts that some addicts do even when they're abusing! It isn't about being an addict or not. It is about the person! And addicts, just like ever social level, have the good ones and bad ones in it.
Talk about hypocrisy huh? You have people who do not do drugs and look down their noses at those who have and beaten them, yet they do things like marital infidelity, abuse prescription medications, smoke way too much, whatever. The fact is that everyone has some sort of sin in their life and to look down upon those with a different sin than yours is outright hypocrisy!
Do you know why the biggest sinners sometimes turn out to be the hardest workers and most devoted to Christ's cause than others? It is because they were forgiven by God for so very much! Look at it this way, if you owed someone $5.00 and they forgave you, you'd probably thank them and maybe take them out to lunch or something. But if you owed $100,000.00 or more and they forgave you, you'd want to do something much bigger and grander to show how much you appreciate what they did for you in the first place! It's not about owing and paying back. It is about doing something, anything you can think of, to show how much you appreciate the one who has forgiven you so much!
The hypocritical part is that most who have very little sin in their life are not forgiven, in their own eyes, for very much. In God's eyes, a little sin has the same punishment as a big sin, that of separation from God! That is what Salvation is all about, restoring us, the sinner, back to God so that our relationship with Him can be mended. Yet those who feel they only had a little to be forgiven do not look at it from God's eyes in that sin is sin no matter how small or big. Instead they feel like they're already living a good life and do not seek to do much more.
Don't get me wrong here. There are plenty people out there who have not done much wrong and do get it. There are those who commit wholly to God and know His view of sin very well!
So I guess what I'm getting at is this, the next time you see an addict, or murderer, or alcoholic, or thief, or even a liar; try and help them out of their sin and then be accepting of them as you would anyone else who is working at living a good life now. Go out of your way to help them know that you realize all they've been forgiven of and help them to show their appreciation for that forgiveness!
We call come from different pasts and we all have different futures. But what if we all had the same heart to seek to help others out of their sin and then be fully accepting of them just as they now are? Wouldn't that be a much better place?
May God bless you all this day!
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