Is that a Spade?

A few weeks ago I called someone out for being a professing Christian but not having Christ in his heart. I didn’t say this to the actual person. I’m not so solid in my faith that I feel I have the right to correct people yet. At four years a Christian I feel I am still learning and developing my relationship with Jesus. I am a child in Christ. It’s not my place to correct people that have been Christian’s for twenty years. The other probably more dominant reason is that I don’t know that I have the guts to do that (yet).

This issue came up in conversation with someone else. The reason I said that this person did not have Christ in his heart is because he has not forgiven - and according to the person I was talking to never will – someone for a incident that happened well over a year ago. If I’m sure of anything about Christianity it is that grace and forgiveness flow freely from Jesus. He calls us to forgive everyone for everything. Some may say that the person who is in the wrong has to ask for forgiveness first, but I think that is wrong. Jesus is actively seeking us. He wants nothing more than to forgive us. There is a big difference between Jesus forgiving us when we accept Him and a human being holding onto their resentment while they wait for someone to right a real or supposed wrong.

I felt somewhat bad for calling this person out. As noted above I’m a very young Christian. What do I know? Sometimes I think you have to call a spade a spade though.