"Times change, but people pretty much stay the same."

A thought by Daniel Fusco, from his book, Crazy Happy (p. 35). The Crown Publishing Group, Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon to buy the book.)

And we need to see this.

I can't believe they would do that.

Daniel says, "Pharisees in the church today are those who at some point gave their lives to Jesus and want to follow the Word but have lost God’s heart for people. They’ve forgotten where they came from—or never really knew it in the first place. Instead of saying, 'I need Jesus,' they start to look at other people and say, 'They need Jesus. I can’t believe someone would do that.'"

He goes on, "If this is you, be careful. Whenever we find ourselves in the 'I can’t believe they…' party, we’ve walked away from poverty of spirit. We may be in Christ, but we’re missing out on the beautiful life and sabotaging our own happiness.

"We live in a day where people who don’t know Jesus don’t feel much love from people who do. This is a huge spiritual problem. Without the humility Jesus is looking for, we have no testimony to a dying world."

He continues, "I love to engage with people who don’t go to church and don’t know Jesus—you know, the 'real world' out there. Most of them don’t love Christians so much, and they’ll often tell you it’s because the church is full of hypocrites. I don’t disagree. (Granted, the whole world is full of hypocrites.) This is tough to hear, but it’s probably no surprise to any of us. Because of this view of Christians, humility is not only the path for us to enter the kingdom of God, but it’s the way in which the church can transform the wider world’s poor opinion of us. It lets us become a winsome, beautiful witness to help usher a dying world into the kingdom of God.

"Want proof? Look again at the life of Jesus, who even in his divine perfection lived humbly."

Daniel then says, "Those people who were considered outsiders by the religious authorities loved to be with Jesus, even though he didn’t do all the things they were doing. In fact, he lived completely differently from how they did. Yet they felt comfortable to come to him and share their lives with him because even though he was perfect and he never did anything wrong, there was room in his heart for them.

"Why? Because the fruit of humility is love."

Oh, we need today that fruit in our heart, living out through our life, don't we?

Yes, yes!

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