Limitations

Okay, when you see these pictures what do they make you feel?  If you were an unbeliever and you were  scrolling down Facebook (which is where I found most of them) and these popped up what would you do?

It might just be me but I don't like them. I feel like we are putting restrictions on God.

If you don't like this post on Facebook or Google plus or where ever else they might show up, your life will go horribly wrong and if you ignore we will show you pictures of you eternal damnation.  

I highly doubt that God is going to get back at you for not liking his post on Facebook.  He is not a teenage girl, guys.

I might be taking this a tad to far but I feel that there is more to this than a pictures on the social media.  It seems like we are always putting restrictions on God.

IF you do drugs you will go to hell.

If you get drunk you are condemned.

If you abort that baby, you granted a pass to eternal damnation.

If you go to that party, if you do this, if you don't do that.  

I am not saying that these are not bad things.  I am not saying that they are not sins.  and I am definitely not telling you to go try them.  But who are we to say, "You are condemned" Why are we so proud?
Was it so long ago that we forgot that we were once condemned to eternal damnation.  Instead of yelling "You are going to hell."  Tell them that there is a someone out there who will love them no matter what.  
You can't yell at someone and tell them that they need to fix themselves before they roast in hell, if they don't even know they are broken.


Sometime people need a hand up before they can be pushed forward.  

But I have careful, I don't want you guys to believe that you can never talk about hell.  Because it is real.  It there.  And that is where by nature we deserve to go.  People need to know there is a threat.  That Belief isn't all flowers and rainbows.

All I am really trying to say (and I got a bit off topic) is that we need to stop putting limitation on God.  He has none.   Sometime I think we have a hard time knowing what that is like.  God won't love you only when you like a post on Facebook, or if you stop doing drugs, or you apologies to that kid you made fun in 7th grade.  God loves you now.  People need to know this.   God loves you no matter what you do.  Sure, these make him happy and they prove that we love him back.   It isn't our job to condemn people, for we ourselves are condemned.  It is our job to lead people to God and know that only because of his limitless love and mercy we, errant humans, are saved.