Guilty/Innocent

Last week as many of you know I was called for jury duty. This was my first time to be selected to jury duty and I was both excited and honored to be able to serve. Honestly, I didn’t think they would call me since I’m a pastor and was wearing me FBC Sweeny polo and I also had the unlucky juror number 13. But with all that against me I was called. As I sat through this trial were a young woman who was being charged with theft of a ladies undergarment and a pair of britches I began to listen to the evidence. Both attorneys asked us to not listen to the testimony as much as pay close attention to the circumstantial evidence as with direct testimony someone might lie, but with the circumstantial evidence it wouldn’t lie. This young lady confessed to both the police (3 police on hand) and the lost prevention officers (3 on hand as well), plus there was a video, plus she physically handed them the britches, and a signed confession stating that of her own free will and by no coercion of anyone else she took the merchandise in question. So with all this as evidence she gal stood there last Tuesday and entered a plea of not guilty. Not guilty are you kidding me? Really? With all this against you, you’re gonna stand there and say not guilty? Then it hit me…isn’t that what we do with Christ? We do everything wrong, most of the time it’s merely slip-ups but it still leads to sin and then we stand before Christ and want to say “not guilty.” Really. Now there is a huge difference in these two situations. In the first one, the mother came and testified along with the gals boyfriend, but neither them nor the attorneys representing her were going to take the sentence that was issued for the crime in question. Whereas in the second case, Christ has already paid the punishment for the crimes that were committed and will be committed, but we have to ask for His forgiveness and for Him to be our God. He is God so it isn’t anything for Him but it is huge for us. Some make sure that you spread that Good News with someone today.