How much is a dab?
Merriam-Webster says it’s a small amount.
Merriam-Webster also says we apply it with a gentle touch.
Let’s think about that for a moment. We take a small amount of something and apply it gently.
Have you ever attended a church service where you felt you were being pummeled with the words of the minister? How did you feel afterward? Better, or frightened that you were bereft of all hope?
You felt like you had booked a voyage on the Titanic. You weren’t underwater yet, but there was no way you were making it safely to the shore.
1 John 2:10 says we need to dab the love of Jesus everywhere we go.
“Whoever loves his brother abides in the light, and in him there is no cause for stumbling.”
Read that verse clearly. We can’t mistake the message of truth found in this sentence.
If anything we do, no matter how well-intentioned, causes someone else to stumble, we are not walking in the light of Jesus.
That includes brandishing the scriptures like a bull in a china shop.
That’s not God’s way.
Do we have that in our heads, now? Are we understanding the Jesus process?
It’s like this: Where in the Bible did Jesus take the baseball bat of God’s truth and whack people in the head?
It didn’t happen. Full stop.
The woman at the well. The tax collector. The rulers of the synagogue. Jesus even spoke gently to the Roman authorities as they made the decision to crucify him.
How do we measure up to that? A little dab of Jesus. A small amount of his love. It’s how Jesus treated the lost and hurting people at his side.
The gentle touch of his presence will draw people unto him.
Our Christian standard must flow from the perfect example of Jesus.
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