There are two things that seem to chap my hide and get my goat every time—pet peeves that annoy me to no end. The first is when people hop on the elevator at work (for example, the ground level) and press “1″ to go up one floor, while the stairs are literally just around the corner. Apparently one flight of stairs is just too much for them. BAH! They’re lazy.

The second thing that annoys me to no end is Christian testimonials that try to use “where they are now” as a means of amplifying said testimony. On KTIS this morning [I normally don't listen to the station; Natalie had it on] someone was sharing a testimony about someone coming to Christ and how they eventually went on to study law and became a professor at one of the “top universities” in America—I can only assume they implied Liberty University.

“Christian” testimonies that try to illustrate God’s hand in someone’s life, by telling of a status they’ve achieved or a place that they’ve arrived to assumes that God really cares about status or position. Equally, that implies that they were lesser of a person before they became that lawyer, the successful doctor, or a professor at a leading university—even moreso, that they have now become a “greater” person as a result of their change and “upgrade” in status. If I recall, Jesus once said (within Matthew 20) that the last shall be first and the first shall be last—he showed no prejudice to stature or their entry time into the Kingdom of Heaven.

He also once said, “…do not be worried about your life, as to what you will eat or what you will drink; nor for your body, as to what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing?…” I think career or status is included right along with that.

If a testimony is going to be given and accentuate anyone’s greater qualities, it ought to be of our Most Holy Triune God—it is HE who bothered to extend grace to us and it is HE who has saved us, IS saving us, and WILL save us. We’re still in process and ever changing—inherently unreliable and unsteady…shakeable. But GOD is unchanging, reliable, and not shaken. He’s the one worth testifying about—He’s the hero of the story, who has entered my realm to save a poor, wretched soul like mine.

May 17, 2007, 8:57 am

Filed under: Christian Subculture, General

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