Thoughts From Camp - Love the Unlovable
As we were at camp this last week, I was watching the kids and how they acted. The discussion between the girls was always about which boy they liked better (and visa-versa), and tempers flared quite easily. After trying to talk to them rather un-successfully (David did also), I un-knowingly started to have a rather self-righteous mentality. I’m so glad I’m not like that! And as soon as I thought it, God brought to mind the Pharisee... Luke 18:10-14 Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men—extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess.’ And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for eve...