Tag: sinful attitudes

When Peter went up to Jerusalem, the circumcision party criticized him, saying, “You went to uncircumcised men and ate with them.” (Acts 11:2-3)

I wonder if it had ever struck those men of the circumcision party how much they sounded like the Pharisees criticizing Jesus in that moment. (Luke 5:30; 15:2)

I’m sure they had heard the stories of Jesus eating with the “sinners” and how the Pharisees had criticized him for it.

I’m sure every time they heard those stories, they said, “I would never be like the Pharisees.”

But when they confronted Peter, did it ever occur to them that they were doing essentially the same thing that the Pharisees had?

It made me think of myself. Do I ever sound like a Pharisee? And even if I don’t, what sinful attitudes am I blind to in my life?

Are there characters in the Bible of whom I think, “I would never be like them,” and yet in my own way, I am?

I don’t have an answer to that question right now.

But for now, my prayer is, “Father, reveal to me my own heart. Show me where I am blind. Show me the sinful attitudes in me that I am not seeing. And please make me like you.”