A Confession

I have a deep desire to be around people who love Jesus passionately and genuinely.  In fact, I find myself longing to develop significant friendships with those who exude Christ with their lives.  You know, the type of people that just by being around them God uses to well up desires to pursue Him more intimately.  They are, as Paul puts it in 2 Corinthians 2:14, ones whom the fragrance of the knowledge of Christ spreads everywhere.  It is hard to describe people like this.  All I know is that there are those whose love for Jesus is so pure that it makes me want to love Christ more; and selfishly, for my own spiritual growth, I want to be surrounded by people like this.

I was praying about this very desire today, and it hit me.  Am I being what I so desire in others?  Am I helping others fall more in love with Jesus?

I realized that my expectations of other Christ-followers was an expectation I was not making of myself.  And so I make a confession - I have such a long ways to go in this adventure of loving Christ with all that is in me!  My renewed commitment is to be what I so desire in others - and consequently, what Christ desires of me.  I want to be a pure fragrance of the knowledge of Christ that spreads everywhere.

This is my confession.