Every mouth continues to run, spewing how offended they are, yet every mouth has nothing to say in front of the cross, except “forgive me my God, for I am sinner”.

Matthew 11:6, Romans 1:18-32, Romans 5:5, Romans 3:19

The world is a raging vomit of self-righteousness and offense, which God himself came to save, by sending His own Son, to carry all of our raging self-righteousness and God-devaluing offenses, to the cross on our behalf. – Matthew 11:6

11 When Jesus had finished instructing his twelve disciples, he went on from there to teach and preach in their cities.
2 Now when John heard in prison about the deeds of the Christ, he sent word by his disciples 3 and said to him, “Are you the one who is to come, or shall we look for another?” 4 And Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John what you hear and see: 5 the blind receive their sight and the lame walk, lepers[a] are cleansed and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them. 6 And blessed is the one who is not offended by me.”

The world continues to be more and more offended at itself (lol). All you have to do is look at your own heart as you open almost any political news headline or comment on facebook or twitter. We live in a market place of outrage and offense. Yet, the world is offended when God (or His people) are offended at it? The deceptive hypocrisy of the world is deafening. ever increasingly, people feel free to spew their outrage at whatever it feels is morally repugnant, yet when God righteously denounces sin and godlessness, the world is offended at God for doing so?

This is nothing but pride and self-love. I know this is true about me.

What is natural to man, is to be offended at God for being God. Denying God worship, for being all that God is, is man’s deepest problem (Romans 1:18-32). God sees to it that this problem gets exponentially worse, as mankind continues to walk in offense(s) to God almighty.

Mankind’s greatest issue is not the inability to overcome racial, social an economic injustice. Man’s deepest issue is prideful rebellion against God, for which there is but one remedy: The ability to not be offended at God, for being God and worthy of worship. Here is what Jesus Christ, The God man wins for us: The ability to Love God, by removing God’s righteous wrath toward us and becoming the mediator between God and man. God is favorable toward Christ and therefore favorable toward us, for Christ’s sake.

Sexual perversion, hatred, murder, greed, hypocrisy all find their place of origin in the heart of man. They are welcomed, long-term tenants of mankind’s heart. Mankind ought to be offended at mankind. But in our pride, we have the audacity to be offended at God and at others.

Sin and self ought to be the one thing that mankind would be looking to rid ourselves of as quickly as possibly, yet we love sin and we love ourselves insatiably and innately.

Blessed is the who is not offended at Jesus Christ. He carries all of our guilty offenses and our innate offensiveness behind the veil, into the very presence of God with His own blood. “19 We have this as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul, a hope that enters into the inner place behind the curtain, 20 where Jesus has gone as a forerunner on our behalf, having become a high priest forever after the order of Melchizedek.”

For those in whom God has poured out His love into their hearts through Christ (Romans 5:5), offense and outrage has been (and ought to be) quelled at the sight of Christ and all His glory and love. “19 Now we know that whatever the law says it speaks to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and the whole world may be held accountable to God (Romans 3:19). Every mouth continues to run, spewing how offended they are, yet every mouth has nothing to say in front of the cross, except “forgive me my God, for I am sinner”.

Lord, Righteous Father, please forgive us of our God-devaluing offenses and forgive us for making much of the offenses of others, while making light of our own. Your cross sure doesn’t make light of them. Please give us of your Spirit, that we might not be offended at you, for you were not offended nor prideful when you stepped down from your rightful place of glory and authority, and humbled yourself, by taking on the form of a foot-washing servant who was put to death, all though you innocent of any offense that was brought against you. Instead, you received all of God’s righteous wrath for our offenses. May we join with you in your lowliness and self-forgetfulness as a response to your absolute cosmic authority, Holiness and righteousness. In you oh, Lord we find the purpose and meaning of our existence and the aim of all of creation. Let us see how little and silly our self-made kingdoms really are, as we look at you the true King of righteousness.