Mornin Thunk: I think sometimes we over react and fail to leave some things in Gods capable hands! Yesterday at lunch I rode down to the 7-11 to get a bottled water. When I arrived, there were police cars there....I ventured in the building to find two workers telling the police the horrific details of the crime which had just taken place moments before: Two young kids had stolen from the store and taken off down Middlebelt road....the worker snarled his face and expressed that he felt they surely headed straight for Brightmoor. (a less "attractive" community of Detroit). I stood there and listened and then asked: what did they take? The worker looks at me all justified and says: GUM. So, I had about 30 thoughts run through my mind.....the first was: so, you called the law and wasted hundreds of dollars of tax payer money over a couple of packs of gum? srsly? THEN the sarcasm kicked into over drive....(because my sarcasm always does) and I thought to myself: well, of course the filthy little brightmoor trash deserve to be stoned to death....after all, its not like they were just a couple of kids who wanted some gum. . But see, this was far more important than my sarcasm...and after that moment passed I began to think on this time when I was a little girl and had fiver finger discounted a few of those Brachs candies from the grocery store.....Gotten away with it too...no one had seen me....and I was walking down the aisle feeling pretty proud of that candy in my pocket....couldnt wait to eat it...when it hit me like a ton of bricks. I thought I was going to die....I KNEW WHO had seen me take that candy....I suffered for two more aisles before I took the candy out and laid it on the shelf. God has a way with his people.....! I then remembered the time when I had over reacted to someone stealing precious and sentimental items from me. Boy, was I mad! I didnt allow God the time to even consider bugging their conscience.... Then I got to thinking on how my crimes were greater than stealing a few sticks of gum....how Christ had paid the price for my sins, even when I was living in them! And....so...with all them thar thunks....I asked the worker how much was the gum....pulled the money out of my purse and paid the bill! Some folks will say those kids will think they got away with it....well, I dont know how well they slept last night.....what I do know, is that we as humans find it so easy to condemn and convict each other...while standing in the hugest flood of unmerited grace that humanity could ever hope to land in. I just kept thinking last night........if the punishment should always match the crime.....then we are all doomed! Perhaps it wouldnt kill us to try mercy more often? After all, we arent in the OT anymore...no buckets of rocks for stoning.... Meh~ jest thunkin~
Posted on: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 11:01:59 +0000
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