In my travels in the Christian blogesphere, I have noticed two distinct spheres of thought.
One sphere is focused mainly on the self. All the things 
that we should, or shouldn’t be doing . All the things that we should or shouldn’t be thinking, or feeling…lest we ‘do it wrong’.
A person on one blog was railing about how wine was from the devil and how we not drink anything fermented. Anything fermented was evil. I asked her about penicillin. If that was evil too?
People going back and forth worrying about what ‘we do’. What about this sin or that, what about saying this, or feeling that? All the focus on ‘the self’.
The other sphere was mainly focuse on God and what He has done, is doing, and will yet do… in answer to ‘what we have done’.
This sphere is quite a bit smaller than the other sphere.
People in this sphere seem to be a bit more at ease with themselves and the world around them. They seem to realize that so much of our doing is the problem and that the only real solution was the death on the cross of Christ Jesus and His forgiveness to us.
It was our ‘doing’ that got us into this messy situation that we now find ourselves…bound to sin.
It was ‘His doing’, and is ‘His doing’ that has, and will save us from ourselves, the world and the devil.
In it all, I find precious little grace and mercy given to sinners…real sinners, other than the grace and mercy given out by our Lord.
Can we not show some compassion here? Can we not give out a little bit of what we have received towards those who may not be doing it exactly how we think it ought be done? Would not our Lord want us to also be merciful, and compassionate?
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