Pet Peeves

¹⁰ For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.-Ephesians 2:10


Everyone has pet peeves.  Some of mine are:

• Drivers who don't use turn signals
• Grammatical errors in professional media
• Inappropriate cell phone use:  driving, in restaurants, letting them interrupt face-to-face conversations
• People who want me to "share" their extreme political or religious positions on Facebook
• And my number one pet peeve *drum roll*..... Those who believe everything "forwarded" in an e-mail or "shared" on Facebook

I suppose I could go on, and I also suppose that you all could come up with your own pet peeves that I may be guilty of.  Maybe your pet peeve is people who list their pet peeves!

I mention this subject because in his sermon yesterday, Pastor Chad talked about something that seemed to be one of Jesus' pet peeves and it got me to thinking about what other pet peeves Jesus had and how they could be backed up with scripture.

Pastor Chad said that one of Jesus' biggest pet peeves were when people were not fruitful... when we don't do the things we were created to do.

Some of Jesus' other pet peeves:

• Justifying unloving actions by quoting scripture (Law over grace) - healing on the Sabbath (Matthew 12:10-12); the woman caught in adultery (John 8:2-5)
• Obstructing anyone from worship or coming to him - bringing the children to Jesus (Matthew 19:13-15); Jesus cleanses the temple (Luke 19:45-46)
• Judging others, especially when we haven't examined our own sin - the woman caught in adultery (John 8:7-8); judging others (Matthew 7:1)

We all probably unintentionally do things that peeve other people and other people are going to unintentionally offend our own pet peeves.  Hopefully we will all just forgive one another.  But we might want to work a little harder at staying off Jesus' pet peeve list.  Of course, he too will forgive us when we inevitably end up there.

Lord Jesus,

Help us to chose grace over law, always welcome all who seek you, and leave the judging to you.  And help us to live our lives more fruitfully.  Amen.

Joys:  Sitting between my two handsome boys at worship yesterday; touching and thought-provoking stewardship video; back to work