Reluctantly Redeemed:

So I thought I should introduce myself. No one is probably reading this-and that’s not the point. The point is that I am reading this and I’ve found that we can be our best asset or worst enemy. You hear people constantly go on about how we should “do what I say and not what I do.” Maybe it’s about time we start taking the advice that we oh so easily dole out to anyone and everyone who is unfortunate to hear the “God-given wisdom” that we believe that we have. So this is me, writing to myself so I can tell myself down the road what a moron I can be…

Now the reason I named this Blog Reluctantly Redeemed is after one of my favorite stories in the Bible- the story of the love shown to Gomer in the book of Hosea. One of my pastors who I hold to be one of the Godliest individuals I have ever had the fortune to know gave a sermon on the Prodigal Son and it hit me that everyone thinks of themselves as the Prodigal son running into his Father’s arms when they are saved. Well for me I’ve been a Christian for the majority of my life and never lived in a world where I was not told about God because of my wonderful parents. But rather than the beautiful picture of running into my Savior’s arms I have more experience with the idea of adolescent rebellion and running from my Lord and having him faithfully and lovingly come and bring me home. This is why I relate to the story of Gomer. Even when she was freed from slavery she kept going back to that life because that was the only thing she knew.

Is that so different from us skipping back into our lives of sin even though we’ve been freed from our sin and have been claimed by Christ?

Now I am FAR from perfect and there is an ever growing list of things that I as a person must work on but the first of which is keeping me accountable and on track with my faith. I think we in the American church culture do ourselves a disservice when we deny the “dark” areas of our lives and pretend as if we are just as sanctified and clean as we were in the moment where Jesus washed our sin. Let me point out my own personal opinion: Jesus saved us by dying on the cross and rising again. The one and only thing we have anything to do with our salvation is that we have the choice of accepting the gift of Christ. Which I know time and time again I find myself disregarding.

So I can’t promise that I will have many great things to say or that they are going to necessarily be “preachy” all the time. Because I’m just a twenty two year old girl growing up in Annapolis Maryland trying to figure out what to do with my life post college graduation. So if you want to try and figure it out with me we can hold hands and walk through this crazy life together.