Better Than You Are

So, the question comes into my head this morning, can you behave better than you are? Can you be something you are not or will you just be acting like a person who is better than you? I remember when teachers would tell me that certain behavior wasn’t like me. I would think to myself, “How do you know? You don’t know me!” What they knew was a sampling of behavior over time. None of them really knew me, knew where I was from, knew what I was going through. They simply expected me to act to the level that they had become accustomed to.

So, I find a similar thought in the church; where we are all sinners, only saved by grace and therefore a higher level of behavior is expected from us. In the vein of, “Act your age!” we’ve been told “Act out who you are!”

And we do, and are perplexed as to why it all seems to not work.

Posted by: HarryTick™ on 24. August 2007, 04:24 |