Maybe Redemption Has Stories To Tell....

Last night, I was watching a program on our local Christian station. It was about the world's view on Christians and Christianity and how Christians prefer to be right rather than loving. It probably wasn't the best show to be watching right before bed, as opposed to LOST which makes me have nightmares all night about a soaking wet, presumably dead, kid standing at the foot of my bed telling me to be quiet. But I digress. This show, which I never caught the name, was pretty intense. It was definitely a show that made you stop and think. Personally, I didn't like most of what it made me think. The thought process it made me go through, made me realize, WOW I am pretty bad at this whole 'Christian' thing. I profess His name while needing to be right all the time. I will get into arguments and disagreements over Biblical standpoints. I have done things, with the right intentions, but with the wrong course of action. I have hurt people, when I'm supposed to be loving them.

So, what am I supposed to do with that? How do I make things right? Where do you draw the line between being loving and being a doormat? Seriously, answer me and give me suggestions because I really want to know. I have been struggling with this for a while now, and I still can't wrap my head around it.

Dare You To Move

Welcome to the planet
Welcome to existence
Everyone's here
Everyone's here
Everybody's watching you now
Everybody waits for you now
What happens next
What happens next

[Chorus]
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened before

Welcome to the fallout
Welcome to resistance
The tension is here
Tension is here
Between who you are and who you could be
Between how it is and how it should be

[Chorus]

Maybe redemption has stories to tell
Maybe forgiveness is right where you fell
Where can you run to escape from yourself?
Where you gonna go?
Where you gonna go?
Salvation is here

I dare you to move
I dare you to move
I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor
I dare you to move
I dare you to move
Like today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened
Today never happened before

Maybe it is all right there in that song. It really is all about the tension between who you are and who you should be. That is quite possibly the answer. Being a Christian means to be SAVED BY GRACE. How can people who don't know grace truly give grace? Christians are human, humans make mistakes. We can't carry the weight of the world on our backs, we can only lift off of the floor and start again.