Who We Are
Who We Are
By: Tom Wright
7/26/99
We stand today,
products of our lives thus far.
Byproducts of environment, thoughts and acts that we cannot escape.
Each thing we've done in life has made us
the sum total of who we are today.
While many things we've done have been admirable,
still others have been detrimental to our character.
We recapture our past through thoughts,
but it is never changed and though we try, seldom forgotten. (except by God)
Our past is gone forever except for our memory.
We each become an extension of the Church which we attend
and that is why it is so important that we never temper our witness
by becoming like the world.
Many Churches have become like the world
and we, It's members, are to blame since we are the Church.
We have allowed our Churches to become more places for social gathering
than places of worship.
I often wonder and ask God,
why are we just going through the motion?
Then feel so small as I'm reminded that I should know that answer.
That not everyone who attends a Church regularly, is a child of God.
That most are just Church members for one reason or another.
That "Many be called, but few chosen",
and "That wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction,
and many there be which go in thereat:"
Seems many believe God's word,
until we're faced with applying it to some part of our lives.
Case in point, the many Christian divorces and failure to pay God's tithe.
We have the mistaken idea that we can make our own decisions
and then God, will forgive us at our asking and life will go on.
It works like this, we can only ask for a pardon, God, alone grants.
God's word tells us "For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of
the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins".
We have learned to pray when things go wrong
but seldom give praise when things are right.
We have forgotten what modest attire is and as modern thinking goes,
this is an individual affair best left up to the child.
No longer do we wish to be a peculiar people, but instead, like the world.
[I don't think Men wearing earrings, body piercing or funky hair
is what the writer meant by peculiar].
I also have wondered, on occasion, how many Church Deacons
have read I Timothy 3rd chapter and meet or at least strive for those qualifications?
Too many things of this world have become more important than doing God's work.
While we endeavor to feed ravenous ego's, we endure a spiritual famine
and as we dabble in worldly things, though innocent they may seem,
we are forming the person we are to become.
Help me, Lord, to always be totally in your way,
avoiding any appearance of evil,
and giving none other an occasion to stumble.
Copyright © Tom Wright | Year Posted 2019
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