Humility, awareness, a repentant spirit within us, a reliance on the Holy Spirit, together with a commitment to jettison jerk behaviors is essential for any serious and significant progress to be made.
Our cocky ignorance makes us resistant to acknowledging our jerk behaviors.
TO JETTISON DEFINITION FREE
I am not suggesting that women are free of this flaw-only that perhaps men ‘lead the way’.Īstonishing isn’t it, that Jesus died for jerks?! And I, being one, can be-have been, cleansed by His blood and made, and-in-the-process-of-being-made new, into His image, the only jerk-free Man to ever walk on this planet.īut jerk-like behaviors can persist in us, sometimes knowingly, and sometimes unknowingly, and in the latter case, will likely perpetually persist unless someone-a spouse, a friend, a mature adult child of ours, a boss, or the Spirit of God Himself makes us aware of such behaviors. I offer no objective evidence to support my assertion-just the common observation of the cockiness of males, our pathetic machismo, our ‘look-at-me, notice me!’, our sometimes crude, rude, insensitiveness, etc. I also suggest that us men may be at greater risk to ‘jerk-ness’ than are women. Maybe we need a new term to describe ourselves besides or in addition to ‘sinners’-maybe the seriousness of that condition has lost some of its startle to our mind and heart. But based at least on the above definition recognizing our ‘jerk-ness’ can be a very helpful beginning in enabling us to begin or renew our efforts to jettison jerk behaviors. Perhaps you are more comfortable admitting yourself to be ‘merely’ a sinner rather than a jerk- after all most people don’t want to earn the designation ‘he’s a jerk’. Being insensitive, selfish, and inconsiderate, to name only three components of the definition, would most assuredly describe the whole human race, and we, each being members of that race, are therefore afflicted with the fatal flaw of ‘jerk-ness’ in our character. But acting like a jerk at times, and actually remaining one are, I suggest, very different. Surely at times, each of us is ‘insensitive, selfish, ignorant, cocky, inconsiderate of others, and does stupid things’. As broad as is the above definition, perhaps it is fairly accurate to say that each of us sometimes behaves like a jerk. Looking back over the past decades of my life, I have become more aware of how certain past behaviors which litter the roadway of my journey, especially as a younger husband, might well qualify me to be awarded a ‘jerk’ badge, at least according to one or more of the components of the above definition.Īs a Christ follower, or at least a ‘wanna be’, my ‘jerk’ behaviors may qualify among those sins that so ‘easily entangles us’. “ Jerk-an insensitive, selfish, ignorant, cocky person who is inconsiderate and does stupid things“
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