I have this really good friend that I've gone to school with since the first grade and we ended up both going to Texas Tech University. We've actually become closer since graduation and we would spend every other day, if not every day, together and because of thi,s people have assumed that we were dating. We aren't, but I'm telling you this because he's one of my best friends and not much happens without him knowing.
This past semester, he rushed a Christian fraternity at our school. (I'm going to take this moment to say #rushbyx. Frat guys that love Jesus, does it get better? No, it doesn't.) Anyways, people already thought we were a couple, so he jokingly introduced me to a few of his brothers as his girlfriend. So, before the entire fraternity thought I was unavailable, I half-teasing called him out for being a terrible wing-man. However, he quickly redeemed himself shortly after that, as it was his mission to set me up with one of his pledge brothers. (We didn't end up dating, but that's not the point.)
The point is, I was curious as to what he said about me to this guy, because who doesn't want to know what other people think about you, even if we say we don't care. So, as we were eating lunch like always, I asked him what he said to this guy and he said, "I told him you're really pretty and showed him your Instagram. You're smart, you workout, love sports and you're one of the most Godly girls I know." What? Back it up, I thought. Everything else I was used to hearing, mostly from my mom because what mom doesn't hype you up like that? But hearing a friend say that I was "one of the most Goodly girls he knew" kind of baffled me. There's definitely a lot of other people that are "Godlier" or a "better Christian" than I am. He doesn't know that lately, I had hardly read my Bible, and when was the last time I prayed and it wasn't for my food?
And then it hit me. No one knows how many religious boxes I check off every day except me. But he didn't see me as right with God because of what I do or don't do, he knows I'm not perfect. But he does know that I love God and saw me that way because of my faith. If an imperfect human can know my sins and flaws and still see me as right with God, then how much more can a perfect being see all of my sins, know every thought, every intention and still love me and see me as righteous.
"A person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified." -- Galatians 2:16
