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Sinner Portal
 Those of you with kids in school probably already know about
this and if you’re a kid in school it is one of your worst enemies,
but for those of you in neither category this may be news to you. The schools now have a thing
called “Parent Portal.”
It is a web site parents can go to and find out just how their kids
are doing in school. You no
longer have to wait for a report card or for a note from the teacher
telling you all hope is lost.
Now you can daily go online and find out exactly what grades your
child has, what assignments are missing and which ones better appear very
soon. We live by it. Annie hates it. Although her grades are pretty
good, we have pretty high expectations.
So wouldn’t it be nice if there was a “Sinner
Portal” where we could all see how we are doing with our daily
assignments. We could have a
daily progress report from God and see how well we are living up to
God’s expectations.
Would the reports be something we would be proud of, or would they
be something that we would prefer to ignore and just keep showing up late
to class, blowing off assignments and just live in denial.
I’d be curious.
Would my daily carbon footprint be part of it? What grade would I
get in compassionate action for those who have less then me?
Sometimes what’s hard about being a Christian is not knowing just exactly what it is that God is
expecting from us. We get a
pretty good idea from Jesus, but could God really be expecting that
from us?
Marianne Williamson wrote, “Our
greatest fear is not that we are inadequate, but that we are powerful
beyond measure.” Implied
by this is the notion that part of our greatest fear is that we are
responsible. And, we’re
not real sure how we are doing.
Luckily, we may not have a
“sinner portal” but we do have a “redeemer
portal.” Through the
love of Jesus we know that if we don’t measure up in the
“sinner portal” we all have the “redeemer portal”
through which God’s love still possesses us.
I bet there are some kids who would
like something like that after their parents have visited the
“Parent Portal.”
Pastor Greg
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