To Be Least

      If you have not read my "From Belief to Action" post, please do before you read the following verse. So I wrote that post yesterday, okay. Then a couple of minutes ago I was reading in Romans when I came across this verse. I was in shock, these verses summed up what I was trying to say. So read these verse. This the Word of God. It is the Truth, not my writings.

¹⁷Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and brag about your relationship to God; ¹⁸if you know his will and approve of what is superior because you are instructed by the law; ¹⁹if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those who are in the dark, ²⁰an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth-- ²¹you, then, who teach others, do you not teach yourself? You who preach against stealing, do you steal? ²²You who say that people should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples? ²³You who brag about the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? ²⁴As it is written: "God's name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you." (Romans 2)

      Although I was drawn to these verses because of my recent post on the same subject, I was not ready for verse 24. "God's name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you." I stated in my post that, "I am sure you have realized that Christians are often categorized as hypocrites by the world." Perhaps I sound a bit over excited, that is because I am. I am excited in the fact that what I have been thinking about was written in the Bible. These verses have confirmed what I believed to be true.

Here in Illinois it is nearing 10:20, so I have to go to bed. So good night.