Hey! YOU Are the One!
Published on Facebook, November 12, 2010
By Bud Powell
I know the game, I'm on to you. It isn't because you haven't seen enough
evidence. It isn't because Christians haven't lived up to your
expectation. It isn't because somebody said a rough word to you and hurt your
feelings. It isn't because that same person was "judgmental,"
and disapproved of your life style. It isn't because you have not had
enough love and compassion shown to you. It isn't because the message is
not perfectly clear.
The reason who have not repented and believed the Gospel is none of these things. It is because you are a sinner, you love your sin, you hug your pride to yourselves, you blame everyone else rather than admit your own guilt. You are a mean, despicable person who hates God and hates all the good people you have met in your life time. You are the judgmental one and you turn your wicked and depraved self-righteousness on all the Christians you know, thinking that you can excuse your own miserable, dead soul by dumping garbage on them. You are a hog that has returned to wallowing in the mire; a dog that has returned to its vomit, and you would not repent if somebody rose from the dead. He did [arose] and you didn't [repent]. You are not a nice person, even though you would have everyone think you are. You are right in your own eyes, but not cleansed from your filthiness.
It has nothing to do with your understanding, or your own ego-exalted moral sense that you employ to beat every Christian. You are yet in your sins because you love them, you love your own thoughts, you are blinded to light and truth. The Bible is true. Unbelief blinds the mind so that people cannot see, and you are as blind as a mole. You think you see, but the light in you is darkness, so that you would not know that you are blind. You do not know what makes you stumble. Like the drunk you think that you are walking a straight line, that you are bright and witty, but those who have eyes know what a fool you are, but you have bullied the ones who love you into silence and quiet tears.
The Bible never speaks about unbelievers like you as nice, good people who just do not have enough information. The pride of your heart has deceived you; you are drunk with it; your eyes are blinded by it; your condition is desperate, but you love your sin and your own thoughts so much that you will not see.
Oh, by the way. This is from someone who loves you enough to tell you the truth, but you have no idea what love is. You just use the concept to try to keep people off your back. You accuse, accuse, accuse, find fault, criticize, and blame, because you think that gives you an excuse. It doesn't, and deep down inside you know it. That is why you are so mean and nasty.
We are on to you.
