An Open Letter - to You?

 

Dear Legalistic Person;

 

Why, oh why, have you become an accuser of the brethren?

You are so quick to point out faults

- all according to your view point!

What drives you to find fault, to slander,

 yet still feel so self-righteous?

 

Please answer these questions:

- Who are you imitating? (What father are you acting like?)

- What is your goal? What is it that drives you so?

- What about love - God's love?

 

You quickly raise your voice to say you must protect - you must warn!

No matter what one says - you find a way to be right in your own eyes.

You claim you have been called to point out error - to point out the mistakes and faults.

 

What about encouragement?

What about love?

When asked about love, the Love that covers a multitude of sins, you quickly point to the errors in other's lives.

When pressed further about the Love that covers, you become silent and refuse to speak.

 

What about hope?

What about a future?

These are God's plans for His own. (Jer. 11:29)

 

Why must you, like the Pharisees of old, make a show of being perfect

(at least in part) - when in reality you are so far from the truth?

 

You gather around you those of like mind

- you teach about the wrongs of others.

Sadly, you have no idea, what others have gone though.

Worse yet, you have no idea about the reality of how far they have come.

 

You go to great lengths to keep many bound.

Yet Jesus came to proclaim freedom for the captives. (Isa. 61:1)

 

You constantly point out the past with that finger of accusation

- that finger seeks to enslave all that are different from you.

Yet Christ came to proclaim release from darkness for the prisoners. (Isa. 61:1)

 

Does not true love breathe hope?

The love you claim to have is not love at all!

The mission your are on, no matter what you claim,

                    the reality is that your life is not about love.

 

Does not love lead one to the Father?

The journey you have chosen, no matter how long you protest or how loudly you shift focus from yourself to the mistakes of others,  it's not about what is right.

           

Your lifestyle shouts loudly,

but it is not about doing what you see the Father doing,

unless, could it be . . . ?

Could it really be; dare we even think such a thing?

Could it be that the one you serve, the one you claim to represent is no other . . than . . .

 

But how can I say it for it sounds so far from truth?

But then, what is truth?

How do we decide what is our guiding light?

 

I want to say, I want to share

- but no it can't be

- but then it might . . .

 

When one looks at the Word , one knows it's true.

 

The one you serve does not love, does not offer hope.

The one you serve brings bondage and fear, it seeks to enslave.

The one you serve desires to destroy the dream

- to stop God's plans.

The one you serve seeks to steal and if that not enough,

it proudly points out past failures

- erecting road blocks of death and despair.

It will proudly build a wall to stop the Voice

- the Voice of amazing grace!

 

Why are you are willing to throw out on the trash heap

those that don't live up to your requirements?

You throw out those that Jesus redeemed with His very life!

God valued them so much that He gave Jesus as a ransom for them.

Jesus gave up everything to give them a new start.

 

How then can you claim to be a representative of God the Father,

of Jesus the Saviour, when you throw out what He values so highly?

 

Those who claim to represent God must surely value what He values,

love those He loves.

If not, there is deception - not truth - at work.

 

One thing I know one thing for sure - I declare to those held captive that they need not remain bound,

for God's Amazing Grace has come to set us free!

 

They don't have to  remain a prisoner of the past

because Jesus has come to love, to covers ones past.

The past is gone - covered by the blood of Christ!

 

Now the road is clear!

We see, no longer through your eyes or even our own!

Oh what a difference it makes.

 

Our future is bright - guided by the light of His love!

Grace will lead us;

the Blood has cleansed us

and Christ's love covers us.

 

Truly the best is yet to come!

 

by Rev Roger Gamble

July 2, 03

 

Isa. 61:1 (NIV)

The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,

because the LORD has anointed me

to preach good news to the poor.

He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,

to proclaim freedom for the captives

and release from darkness for the prisoners,

 

Jer 29:11 (NIV)

For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.