The Green Family Blog

So I have to thank my sister in law for this one.  She posted this video on Facebook today, happens to be one of my favs.  The end of this song just breaks me every time I hear it.  Just the genuine plee to be more like our Father drops me to my knees.  I would love to say that as a Christ follower I have it all together, that life is perfect, I never get angry, jealous, resentful or hurt.  That I never worry, or try to take things into my own hands, that I never put STUFF before my relationship with HIM.  I would love to say that my time is devoted to serving others and not myself, however the more I reflect on my years as a follower the more I realize how selfish, and ruined I really am!!!  I am NOTHING, I sin daily, I put myself before others, I AM NOTHING!!  If not for God I AM NOTHING!!!  I have to repeat this to myself hourly sometimes more.  Since this revelation, which I shamefully admit has only occurred recently, you see before I assumed I was doing ok, not great but ok!  I was a good person, my life had certainly changed, I have changed.  Then our pastor did this service (if you are interested in hearing it you can find it at The Village , it is the sermon dated June 20th) which I am sure not coincidentally, the aforementioned song was sung prior to.  He talked about how even the “good mother, good wife, good person” needs to repent!  If we are in any way EVER counting on our actions to get us to Heaven we are truly lost!!!  NOTHING, no amount of goodness or good deeds will admit us into heaven it is ONLY by Jesus Christ that we are saved, the life change that SHOULD follow is not done to earn favor but because we see how broken we are!!!!  Because our hearts cry out to be MORE like HIM and less like this world expects us to be!!!  Who cares where you live or what you drive, these things won’t matter in eternity!!!  Who cares that you were a good husband,  good wife or great parent, did you live your LIFE for HIM only!?!?!?   Did every thing you do reflect HIS love and did everything you do (being a good husband, wife, parent) come out of wanting to be more like HIM!!!  Today I pray that I will take these words to heart and that the Lord will continue to break me until HE has made me the person I was created to be!!  I love you Jesus!!!