I’m feeling very smug this evening. We just drove by our supermarket and because it is Thanksgiving Eve the place is packed. There are people driving around the parking lot looking for a spot. I can only imagine what it is like in the store. The reason for my smugness is we went at 8 a.m. and had the store to ourselves; one of the perks of being old and almost retired.
Don’t you just hate smug people? I do. Therefore, I should be experiencing self-loathing. But I’m not. Smugness isn’t nearly as offensive to me when it is I who is the smug one. So let me be very offensive to the rest of you who had to be at work this morning and were not able to go early to the grocery store. Here goes. My church is better than your church because Jesus loves my church more than He loves yours. We are going to heaven for sure and maybe you will get there. It depends on just how merciful God is. You see we had the “Truth” and you didn’t and that makes a huge difference. And even if you get there we will have bigger and better mansions than you. You will be on the other side of the tracks.
There. Have I offended you? As foolish as all of that was, it reflects how we sometimes act even if we give lip service to not being that way. I have had people knock on my door and tell me my baptism wasn’t any good because an elder from their church didn’t perform it. Wow. Talk about smug!
I know Jesus loves smug people. But He despises their smugness and saves them despite it.
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