Status Update

Today I unsubscribed from someone's newsfeed. I didn't de-friend but I just chose to hide the persons' status updates.

Why? Because they were offensive. Not really to me. But to my pride. There was a post with some words that I thought others would read and be offended by. I thought they'd start saying things like: "Why is she friends with her?" "Does she think it's ok to talk like that?"

Love that fear of man/need for mans approval thing that creeps in every now and then. Yuck!

So I unsubscribed and went to wash my dishes. And as I washed the dishes my heart got washed by God.

This thought immediately came to me: when was Jesus ever embarrassed by who He hung out with? When did you see Him making excuses for the way the sinners talked? When did He require immediate perfection from those that chose to follow Him?

None of that's in my Bible. 

Here's what is. Mark 2:16 "And when the...Pharisees saw him eat with...sinners, they said unto his disciples, How is it that he eats and drinks with sinners?

Mark 2:17 "When Jesus heard it, he said to them, they that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but the sinners to repentance."

Then I was convicted and went on thinking that what if by unsubscribing I miss out on an opportunity to love? If there would ever be a cry for help or a question asked that I could respond to and reach out with love. What if I miss that? What if because I don't want to offend the other people on my "wall" or have them thinking less of me than I'd like them to I miss the chance to be like Jesus to this person?

Ouch.

So I'll be going now. I have some re-subscribing to do. 

And last I checked, I didn't have any Pharisees for friends anyway.