You Are Just Like Everyone Else Because You Think You Aren't Like Anyone Else

Dont think for a second you aren't like anyone else. You have already proven it by trying not to be. It's a point of contention for many that we were created in God's image. I can't imagine that we weren't, but won't waste my time defending my thoughts because it isn't worth the time.
Whether or not we were has no bearing on eternity I feel. But it brings up interesting dichotomies for me when I really think about it.
I believe people's biggest problem with this line of thinking is their trouble with accepting a God who doesn't do things the way they would, doesn't think the way they act or or think along the same lines as they do. God and his existence can't be controlled or explained. And humans need to control things and be able to use logic and have an incessant need to explain things. There is no logic to a God that allows cancer to eat away at a child or mother. There is no logic to a God who allows the life of a father to be swiped away in a work accident and there is no logic behind a God who would create someone who is free to run from, disagree with and sabotage Him the way so many of us do at times. This is a hard concept to wrap our fingers around. The understanding flees us like sand in the palm of our hands. And I guess he designed it that way.
So, what makes you or I different from the person next to us? There are few who during some period of there life don't feel they are better than their neighbor. And there are many who go their whole life thinking they are above the "least of these." I confess until I was 27 or so I felt superior to many, I don't feel this way now, sure there a moments that creep up, those thoughts that "I would never do something like that!" but for the most part I have grown past that and go almost out of my way to make people feel accepted to the point that my family life suffers as a result. Sadly the growth has come as a result of making the same so called "mistakes" I was witnessing others make. But I guess that's where wisdom and knowledge are different. Knowing what is right, and doing what is right when faced with temptation.
So where do we go from here? You are no different than any body. You have made mistakes, you will make more. Go ahead.....Rank them on your little scale, yeah the one where murder is at the worst end,,, and lying to get a business deal is not really that bad. But I believe a transgression is a transgression and you will recieve the same punishment as anybody else, but you can also recieve the same grace as any one else......if you so choose to accept it. And I can tell you that for me, it is hard to accept. You have to discontinue with a specific transgression before you can be forgiven for it, and before you can accept grace you have to forgive yourself. And that my friend I know is hard, because I haven't forgiven my self for much of my evils. Grace seems so far away sometimes because I'm no different than you.