Are You a Pharisee or a Tax Collector?

June 10th, 2020

-All Lives Matter

To some who were confident of their own righteousness and looked down on everyone else, Jesus told this parable:10 “Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other people—robbers, evildoers, adulterers—or even like this tax collector.12 I fast twice a week and give a tenth of all I get.’13 “But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, ‘God, have mercy on me, a sinner.’14 “I tell you that this man, rather than the other, went home justified before God. For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.”

 - Luke 18:9-14

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We are a world full of "Pharisees". Everyone thinks they are better than the next person. Everyone is mad at everyone else. They are so confident in their own self that they can't see past that. If they were able to see past that, they would be humble and return home to God. Turn back to Love, Compassion, Peace, and Kindness. If we could humble ourselves to God then, just maybe, we could do more then we ever planned to. Yes, things need to change but there are other ways to bring about awearness. We also need to trust in God and in each other. Once we do those two things, we can bring awearness to anything or anybody but then again that is what I like. I like the peaceful type of fighting, not the loud type.