This past Sunday, I sat through one of the most difficult Sunday School lessons of my adult life. Our class is going through the seven deadly sins, or as our teacher likes to call them, the seven daily sins. (He has a point.)
It wasn't the lesson so much that was difficult, but the lesson topic coupled with the fact that I'm in a Sunday School class with my parents.
Can you guess the topic yet?
LUST.
I won't lie, I kept hoping this lesson would get pushed back until baseball season so I could use work as an excuse to not sit through this one.
God has a sense of humor.
We went through all the standard messages: lust isn't specific to sex (it's not), how the world views sex v the church views sex, how the church doesn't really like to talk about sex, how your parents don't really like to talk about sex, where we all learned about sex as kids (I'm the baby in the class, so I'm the only person who's answer was the internet). It wasn't bad.
Until one of our class members spoke up and said that he feels all of us in the room have conquered the "big sins" and it's more the little sins that we have to deal with.
I sat there thinking, if lust is one of your "big sins", then speak for yourself! This is one that I struggle with, a lot.
Then I began to think about how none of us in that room, or in the entire church for that matter, really have it all together. Sure, some people may only be dealing with the "little sins", but we don't really know that, do we? Just because someone attends church regularly, is active in multiple ministries, has a solid career and loving family, doesn't mean that they don't struggle with some of the things that we as Christians like to define as "big sins".
That's why we should never judge our Christian walk against what we perceive to be the Christian walk of others. I'm a perfect example that sometimes the people who look like they have it all together, are the ones who struggle the most not to come apart at the seams.
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