mini me, mini god

Wednesday April 30th, 1 Peter 3 : 19 He went and proclaimed God's salvation to earlier generations who ended up in the prison of judgment because they wouldn't listen. God’s salvation is for all people, in every time and in every place. We all succumb to the prison of judgment. It is the opposite of grace and it is the human tendency, some may say the original sin. It is the tendency to slip from receiving God’s grace to feeling somehow we are in control of it, or at least have a handle on it and others do not, which is another way of saying that it is not grace at all, just forewarning. Just as there is a short distance from righteousness to self-righteousness, there is a short distance from a follower of God to being a mini-god. Rather than judging others, we are called to walk with others as God walks with us.