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Being a Good Person

Being a Good Person

The rich young ruler called Jesus a good master and His response was,

“Why do you call Me good? No one is good except God alone”

(see Luke 18:19).

Of course the rich young ruler didn’t see who Jesus really was.

He called a human being a good master, and Jesus questioned him.

Now the questions we should ask are:

Am I a good person?

What will make me a good person?

Am I a better person than a murderer?

Are my sins lighter than the sins of others?

Whose sin is greater, a person who was caught in the act of adultery,

or a person who is committing adultery in his or her heart?

Should we call ourselves better people than adulterers

because we’ve never physically been

unfaithful to our wives or husbands?

Who says we are better than the Muslims who

bomb buildings and kill people?

Should we call ourselves better people because

we’ve never physically killed anyone?

We are all sinners.

Who is the biggest sinner?

Paul said he was (see I Timothy 1:15).

The only One who is good is God.

We become good through the blood of Jesus Christ.

Forgive us, Lord, for thinking that we are better than other people.

Our ability to hear God’s voice does not make us better

than those who don’t have a relationship with God.

As Christians we should put down our pride

and know that we are not better than those whom we call unsaved.

We are all sinners and we all need Jesus’ forgiveness every day.

It is about Jesus, not about our goodness.

May the Lord help us to see one another as He sees us,

and may He help us to love one another as He loves.

From Kamran Yaraei’s Book “Food For The Heart”.

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