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Lessons from the Jeremy Kyle Show
I admit, when flicking channels in the morning and this is on, I keep watching it. Probably coz I'm a typical human and also, it makes me feel better coz at least my life isn't as bad as theirs.
But this morning I learnt some lessons.
Forgiveness
There was a mother and daughter on the show. The daughter had been taken away by social services when she was three and had been placed in a foster home that was unsuitable, so the daughter was like well upset and blamed her mum for knowing the situation but not doing anything about it. The mother said she had asked social services but not been allowed to find out anything. Both mother and daughter wanted to be friends but were both angry at each other for lying and accusing each other of neglect and all the rest. So they just bickered. The daughter needed to forgive the mother, and she was finding it extremely hard to do so.
And it dawned on me - these are not Christians, so what motivation do they have to forgive? Apart from the fact that unforgiveness destroys the unforgiving one, which most people don't recognise, forgiveness means backing down and letting go. Why do that? The world says it's every man for himself.
Being a Christian doesn't make it any easier to forgive because we're human and naturally sinful. But we have a motivation to forgive because we have been forgiven more. And watching the Jeremy Kyle Show made me realise just how amazing it is to be a Christian and how much we have been given, even though we don't deserve it.
Being in the World
I guess the main reason we are to be in the world is to tell others the good news about Jesus and his sacrifice for us. But it's also good for us. You don't know how good something is until you have something average or bad to compare it to. If we are in the world, we should be able to see just how much we have in Jesus.
Being Humble
To settle an argument, one person must back down and be nice to the other, and the other is either stubborn and nasty, or responds well and the two people are friends again. But this relies on one person backing down and being able to say "yeah okay, I might be right, I might be wrong but I'm going to put aside my pride and not insist on my way".
If you've ever been in an argument or disagreement, you'll know this is really difficult to do, especially if you are proud or know you're right.
Humans are naturally sinful, so in our 'disagreement' with God, we are in the wrong, and He is in the right. Yet we insist that we own our own lives and are getting it right by doing our own thing.
So how amazing is it that God sent Jesus who was not proud and he took our punishment. It's like God said "I know I'm right, but instead of waiting for you to realise you're idiots, I'm going to do something about it, and send my only Son, who I love so dearly, and put everything that you foolish humans deserve onto him, and then I'll wait for you and let you come to me." God is in the right all the time, and amazingly He made a way for him to keep his standards and not let us get away with stuff, but was not proud either.
My pastor was right yesterday when he said that Jesus is the ultimate example of how to live and behave. No human could ever better that.
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