and Im not as holy in person as i make myself seem on here ..... lol[/center]
Y'all mind if I take it there? I gotta get a little FS on this one... lol.
Dude, all jokes aside, NOBODY here is as holy in person as they make themselves seem on here.
Okay, calm down, folks. Let me explain. Before y'all jump down my throat, hear me out.
The body of Christ, including LGM, the church, and any other Christian body, is not set up to encourage saints to confess their faults, flaws, sins, errors, mistakes, and habits. We judge. We hurt each other. We treat each other differently. We gossip about it. We shun them. We question their calling or gifts... it's just what we do. We're human.
Sure, you have the occasional thread where someone'll say something like "I got angry and told someone off and had to repent,"
or "I was drooling over some man that ain't my husband,"
or "I have a problem forgiving people..."
. But rarely will you hear one of us say, I fornicated last night. I smoked a blunt last night. I cheated on my wife last night. I haven't opened up my Bible since last Sunday. My tongues are learned, not received from God. I'm gay and I only got married to a woman because I knew that was the right thing to do. I had one drink too many at the holiday Christmas party. I cuss like a sailor.
It's not the person's fault, per se. It's the body's fault. We don't allow those kinds of stories. That's why there's so much closet sin going on and frauds and double lives... not because we don't want to admit we're doing it, but because we CAN'T admit we're doing it.
Anyway, I said all that to say this: most of us here are striving to be holy the best way we know how. When we talk about the Bible, and gospel music, and church, and love, and food and all that, we talk about the things that please God. We give a one-sided view, which is what makes you feel like you're coming across more holy than you really are. But please don't think that you're the only one who has flaws, faults, sins "big" or "little."* YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
However, I can't close this out without saying that if you know something in you is keeping you from being your best self, work on it. Don't just accept that it is what it is. Get rid of it and strive to please the Lord. Work while it is day, little bruh.
*Yes, I know there are no big and little sins; hence the quotation marks.
