Its so easy as a church and as people to judge people who live sinful lives. Especually people within the church who have sinned.
Of course some sin is more apparent than other sin.
What we tend to forget is, all sin is the same. Some people just become more strategic at hiding it as comepared to others. And I think as a church we have created this box out in the rain we shove our sin into and pray to God that the rain doesn't allow the box to soften allowing our sin to crumble out.
Instead of seeking help and prayer we have become acustomed to hiding any ounce of sin in our lives.

Who are we to judge sinful lives.
Who are we to hold grudges upon those who ahve sinned.
Havnt we all tasted the acid guilt of "sin" before?
In fact, the bible says that the only one who has not sinned is Jesus.

John 8 tells a story of a woman who was caught in adultery and they made her stand before the group and they said to Jesus; "Teacher, this woman was caught in the act of adultery (therefore this woman has committed a sin, the only difference with her sin and others, was she was caught)
In the law Moses commanded us to stone such women... Now what do you say?" The people asked. They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his fingers...
he said to them:  (John 8:7) "let any one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her." Everyone began to go away one at a time from the oldest to the youngest. Until Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there.
Jesus asked the woman- "Where are they? Has no one condemned you?" "No one, sir." She said.
"Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared.
"Go now and leave your life of sin." Jesus spoke.

The truth is we have all had dirt on us, but Jesus has turned to us and has said- "You are beautiful and shiny to me, there is not one speck of dirt on you." We have been cleaned by his sinless blood.

And because we are sinners who are we to judge the dirt seen on others lives?
Why pick out the dirt on someone's life? When we can encourage them and love on them. We can remind them that God sent his son to die for our sin so that we may have life. By God's grace we are free, and the dirt is washed clean.
To be more like Jesus, we should not condemn for we would be hippocrits, but we should love.
More people would than do one thing that Jesus asked, that of- "Go now and leave your life of sin."
As long as we love on each other and help each other from this world, so that in heaven we can all have eternal life.

Breath; Nicole, you will find me here'

It's hard sometimes not to be manipulated by our past. But when we realize what we've had isn't good enough, we have no choice but to change- Gods grace is enough  

"all the past is, is the steps that got us to where we are now. Lessons learned.

@nikkbeeleigh: If grace is water .. Then the church should be the ocean. It's not a museum for the good people. It's a hospital for the broken'

Everything does happen for a reason: we just might not know the reaso right away- but eventually we find it.

I'll Be There For You, These Five Words I Swear To You'

When the devil tries to remind you of your past, remind him of his future

Is so lucky and blessed to have Mike in my life and to have the opportunity to call him my boyfriend!

May twenty-fifth: I am free

Sometimes holding onto a dream can interfere with God's plan. That is when we need to pray for wisdom to understand which dreams to pursue and which dreams to let go of .

But the blood in your veins as you carry his name turns thinner than water'

Eleven long and hard years of praying for you...Gods timing is always better than ours

It shouldn't be about the one you can see your life with, it should be about the one you can't see your life without

i think sometimes we just need to stop thinking, i think we think to much.
& when we think to much, thats when our world becomes exaughsting.

I don't even know you anymore.

I miss you..
the last memory i have with you, is the day you were taken away; the day you laid their in my arms'

If only I could see you again.

I think, to many times people use the line, "God told me" way to much, and we abuse it.
We hide what we want to say behind "God told me..." We use it as a cover so that what we want to say to someone can be said in a way that we believe will catch their attention.
This frustrates me because we take him for granted.

It's my time to get to know myself with only you Lord, I can't wait to see what you have in store for me! Im giving all my praise to you <3

I can feel the peace you have given me, thank you Lord

It's so easy to blame God, You know when bad things happen; things that are not supposed to happen. It's so easy to place the blame on him. But what if bad things never happened, what if wrong turns were never made... We wouldn't be as appreciative of the good times, and there would be no right turns.

God never gives us anything that we can't handle, and he never leaves us stranded, abondoned or alone. God doesnt abandon us during our struggles... There for we should praise him during our success.

We blame God for the bad things in life, but what ever happened to praising him during the good things?

Through the dark and the light; God did us a favor, he rescued us. So why not return the favor, and tell Jesus that you love him. Through the thick in your life and the thin in your life.

Jesus, I lay it all down, I love you.
Thank you.

"put some faith in me, and someday you'll see. There's a diamond under all this dust."

God, here I am... Take my hand and lead my way
Change my life.

I am nothing without you...
but with you I am everything I'm supposed to be

"Your my girl, so let me protect you"

The only thing you won on January 9th was "not being a father."

You lost so much more....

you lost us.

and so sometimes, when all you've got doesn't seem to be enough; then it's time to move on.

0 t h i n g s a r e c h a n g i n g o

Love is patient and
kind, it is never jealous, love is never boastful or conceited, it is never rude
or selfish, it does not take offence, nor is it resentful. Love takes no
pleasure in others’ sins but delights in the truth; it is always ready to
excuse, to trust, to hope and to endure whatever comes.

Love does not come to an end. There are three things that last, faith,
hope and love and the greatest of these is love.

Corinthians 13: 4-8

Stuck In between'

You Can't Steal Her Heart, When It's Already Been Given Away.

another goodbye, is a new hello

-nhouston