"I'm A Good Person"

I am 100% percent sure that we have all heard someone say "I'm a good person" at least once or twice in our lives. My belief is, this statement holds no merit. In fact, it is equivalent to a paper bag filled with air minus the paper bag... and the air. It means nothing in comparison to the statement "I am a saved person" person. Hear me out before you throw the tomatoes. Being saved does not mean you are free from sin. What is does mean is that you've accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. That commitment alone should lift the burden of being rooted to the simple things that truly do not matter. and by the grace of God, people around you should be able to see not only God, but the church in you! I always hear non believers and even believers who are unsaved saying things like "I am a good person here on Earth" or "People in the church are judgmental and hypocritical" and it makes my heart ache every single time. Why? Because I couldn't imagine living life with the idea that it all ends here. No matter how wonderful life is, it will NEVER measure up to what heaven has in store for us. I'm going to share a VERY personal testimony. Roughly six years ago the Bishop from Lagos came for a conference to Atlanta to preach at my church. After he preached, he came up to me and said "You are full of gifts, God wants to use you tremendously BUT your lifestyle and your choices are holding you back from what he wants to use you for". I was shocked! seemingly on the outside I was a nice and "good" person. I was polite, funny, well dressed, sympathetic, generous and happy so how did he gather that my "lifestyle" wasn't pleasing to God? I drove home, BIG MAD actually I was BIG, BIG mad!! I realized a week later that I wasn't big mad at him but more so big mad at the fact that he had spoke a truth that I was far too embarrassed to admit. I was in a deep pit of an eating disorder that was quickly claiming my health and my voice. I was a major fornicator with any man that called me his girlfriend, I was insecure and clapping for others literally hurt my soul oh and don't forget my need to politely be right. buttttt.. I was a good person. Many years later, I would go on to rededicate my life to Christ.The things that kept me in bondage have became so far removed from my life that they only make an appearance in my "if you saw how far i've come, you would be screaming JESUS, too" campaign.

I have my days where I ask myself if my love for God is uncomfortable for people and then I am quickly reminded that I cant be bothered by those thoughts. I cant exalt people over the Most High and I for sure can't be walking around like people... even you "good ones" have a Heaven or a hell to send me to.

I created this blog to entertain but also to inform. My prayer is that we corporately decide that being a "good person" simply isn't good enough we must strive to be Kingdom people.