Pimp slaped by the Bible

Name:Chad
Scripture: Job 11
OAP:
The original title of this blog was "I don't want to do this, Josh is making me" but after reading Job 11 (Edit: I thought I was reading Psalm 11.... but no)the new title is much more appropriate. "should a multitude of words go unanswered, and a man full of talk be judged right? Should your babble silence men and when you mock, shall no one shame you? ". Jack and I have this thing, because we go to Bellarmine we can just make stuff up and people believe us. It sounds stupid, but you have no idea how hilarious it was once we realized that it was true. On the rare occasion that someone call us on it I fancy myself apt at enough verbal wordplay to get out of the situation. I can dance with my words and talk myself out of, or into, just about any situation. I also tend to think that I am a fairly "good Christian". I can turn it on autopilot and serve, worship, pray, lead, hold theological conversations, even experience life changing ideas, with minimal effort. In short, this is my confession that I think very highly of myself. I put myself before the Lord and say " My doctrine is pure, and I am clean in God's eyes", well thats a tad exaggerated, but I think very much along those lines. But anyway, I think I am wise and I think I am good. I do this in a way that is very easy to hide by knowing, in my "wisdom" that I am depraved and fallen and that it is God whom saves me and guides me, but the core is still there.

Verse 5 is the pimp slap by the way. 1-4 describes me and then 5-12 tears me down. 13 on is hopeful and redemptive, actually it is almost impossible to the point where there is no way I can archive it, so once again I must lay myself out before God, bare, surrounded in my weeds that I will not hide from him (Or apparently anyone with an internet connection).

Lord, I long to one day lift my face before you with no blemish. You give me that opportunity everyday and I throw it away in my prideful arrogance. Thank you for convicting me at a time of such consolation and unity in the church. I think I was going to get too full of my humanity.