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\"09-19-15<\/a><\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 What song are you going to pick Prodigal?<\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 I am looking at all this music that is listed.\u00a0 There are so many, but I think I am going to pick Johnny Cash.<\/p>\n

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Me:\u00a0 Good choice Prodigal!\u00a0 You can not go wrong with the man in black.<\/p>\n

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Prodigal:\u00a0 What did you want to share with me today?<\/p>\n

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This comes from the book You Can Change by Tim Chester<\/p>\n

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We all have a strong tendency to want to live by a list of rule–it’s called legalism.\u00a0 I was talking to a group of students about lifestyle issues.\u00a0 They kept asking specific questions:\u00a0 What car can I buy?\u00a0 What should I do with my savings?\u00a0 How much should I spend on clothes?\u00a0 They wanted a list or a law.\u00a0 But even if we could create such a list for every occasion, it wouldn’t work.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Legalism is appealing for two reasons.\u00a0 First, it makes holiness manageable.\u00a0 A heart wholly devoted to God is a tough demand, but a list of ten rules I can cope with.\u00a0 That was the motivation of the expert in the law who asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”\u00a0 He wanted to justify himself, to tick the\u00a0 “love for neighbor” box.\u00a0 But Jesus’ story of the good Samaritan blew his manageable system apart.\u00a0 Second, legalism makes holiness an achievement on our part.\u00a0 “Yes, I was saved by grace, ” the legalist says, “but I’m the godly person I am today because I’ve kept this code of behavior or practiced these spiritual disciplines.”\u00a0 One of its by-products is comparison with other people.\u00a0 We check whether we’re holier than other people or look down on those who don’t appear to be as good as we are.\u00a0 No one thinks of himself as a legalist.\u00a0 Such persons just think of themselves as someone who takes holiness seriously.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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We all have been legalist at some point in our christian walk.\u00a0 Let’s just repent right now and remember that apart from God we have no reason to think we holier than anyone else.<\/p>\n

Proverbs 19:1<\/p>\n

Better is a poor person who walks in his integrity than one who is crooked in speech and is a fool.<\/p>\n

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Jennifer Van Allen<\/p>\n

www.theprodigalpig.com<\/p>\n

www.faithincounseling.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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