Nobody Always says Jesus is Lord

Jesus Christ our Lord

Dare any of us say that Jesus is always Lord of our lives and that we perfectly obey him at all times? Of course not. So when Paul said that those who have the Holy Spirit will say that Jesus is Lord (1 Corinthians 12) he did not imply that we say so all the time. However, we tend to get picky about one another. We excuse our own inability to say that Jesus is Lord over 100% of our lives via perfect obedience, yet criticize others for their lack of perfect obedience. It may not even be obedience to Jesus that we criticize, but humanly devised church rules or procedures. The Bible gives very scanty rules for procedures and does not always confirm our human rules, but one thing it does continually confirm, we have each received one Spirit.