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‘I just wish I were one of them’
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Wednesday, June, 02, 2010
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by John Fischer
Someone wrote to us about the authors of so many Christian books and devotionals: “I'm sure these writers are helpful to so many people, I just wish I were one of them.”
I bet everyone has felt this way at least some of the time, and others feel this way almost all the time. That book, devotional, study guide, seminar, retreat, or church service was helpful to so many people… I just wish I were one of them!
Here’s what makes this even worse. A lot of people are acting like they are one of them for whom it is working, when deep down inside, they are not. This is when playing church can be so damaging. Church should be where you go for help, but if no one needs it, no one gets it.
Church should be a little like heaven—full of a whole bunch of people who can’t believe they got there, know they don’t deserve to be there, and can’t wait to find out what happens next.
Church is not a building full of beautiful people who hide a secret that the Christian life is working for everyone but them. It’s a community of folks who know they shouldn’t be there in the first place, and yet they got there anyway, through no merit of their own, and because of that, they have nothing to lose.
There is power in conformity; we just need to decide to what we will conform. Will we all conform to being something we are not, or will we make a corporate decision to be who we are, whatever the cost, and let Christ be the one who conforms us to His image as He sees fit?
You don’t have to wish you were anything except to be who you are. That’s the way Jesus found us, and that’s how He will make us into the men and women He desires us to be.
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