Brothers to Battle

Honesty and courage go hand in hand. As a lover of Christ, I find the most difficult thing in life to do is communicate to another human being that I have not loved Jesus. It seems to be intesified if someone a) also knows Christ, and b) is in an intimate relationship with me [ie family]. The perspective I desire to have is one which continually keeps my current situation before my thoughts at all times. That I have been rescued by the only means possible, from the worst problem possible, by the only person possible; and it is not myself. When I analyze my own sin, and truly sorrow over it, I am not very much inclined to comment judgementally on someone else's sin. But the trick is that a beginning step must be taken in order to start a process of honesty in a positive direction instead of a negative direction. If noone talks about personal sin, then noone will risk saying anything offensive (which is most of the Bible in the toilet), which completes and maintains a viscious cycle of assumptions, judgements, and failures, which can only be broken by Godly courage, which is born of a true desire to be holy, and shatters the trend by being the first one to say: 'I have a problem'. From here the entire trend (and the lifestyle of an entire people group in some cases) reverses like a coiled spring, so that people freely share eachother's burdens, refrain from judging, and teach eachother how God would have them live.

My little brother is probably the most courageous person I know, and I love him for it. I have no shame in declaring that his honesty is a reproof, and his attitude is refreshment of the soul.

Continue to fight brother, I am beside you.

Todd