When I was growing up I had a great friend. We used to ride our bikes all over the country in our area. We even were known to ride to a neighboring town (if my Mom had know that she would have died). On one of our trips we were followed by three dogs. They came after us barking and intent on catching us. As we peddled uphill as fast as we could I began to run out of steam so to speak. My friend jumped off his bike and began to grab rocks off the side of the road and throw them at the dogs as hard as he could. One caught me and nearly licked me to death. We felt horrible.
My friend was a good shot with those rocks. We both had gotten much practice over the years with throwing rocks. Look at II Samuel 16:5-6, “And when king David came to Bahurim, behold, thence came out a man of the family of the house of Saul, whose name was Shimei, the son of Gera: he came forth, and cursed still as he came. And he cast stones at David, and at all the servants of king David: and all the people and all the mighty men were on his right hand and on his left.”
Here is my thought today. How good are we at throwing rocks? I mean people deserve to have rocks thrown at them. Remember in the Old Testament people were simply stoned for certain crimes. So, we are justified in throwing rocks today. Wrong! We are not justified in throwing stones or rocks today. I remember one instance were Jesus Himself told a crowd that “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her..” John 8:7.
I think it is high time that we quit casting stones at others and get our own lives cleaned up. God cannot bless someone who has known sin in their lives. The Church is getting more and more powerless and I believe that it is the powerless people who will not get the sin out of their lives that are causing it. Are you good enough to qualify for Jesus’ statement? Me either.
So, how are you doing?