Self Righteous?

Have you ever noticed that Christians can be very poor at taking rebukes from the world…?

We always have some comeback…if not verbal…it is simmering in the back of our brains…removing any desire to listen to the “heathen” before us.

Sure their words may be true…

Sure they may be hitting the nail on the head about our moral failures…

But then comes the relief…our justification for not having to listen to them…

But look at them!

They are calling me a hypocrite, a liar, a cheat?

They don’t even trust Jesus…they curse like drunken sailors, sleep around like they had an annual membership at the brothel…and break all the other commandments on a daily basis…

And they are rebuking me!?

Why not?

If a man is speaking words to me…and they are true…shouldn’t I listen to them?

God can speak through people who don’t yet trust Him…to rebuke those who are trusting Him…we need to be humble enough to listen.

We need to get off our self righteous, high horses…and realize that we are in great need of much instruction…

If someone who doesn’t claim to be a follower of Jesus, rebukes you for sin in your life…humbly receive it…not because you see it practiced in their lives…but because it is true.