99 1/2

The Bible states that some me will stand before God and recite all the good things they have done.  God's answer is that He does not even know them.  Human beings can be a trip.  In the face of being wrong, they often want to recite all the things that they do right as if one can cancel out the other.  It does not work that way.  The place where you are obedient does not cancel out the place where you are disobedient.  The place where you are disobedient makes the places of obedience null and void.  In this sense, we can't pick and choose which law of God we obey and which we choose to ignore.  Uzzah disobeyed one law in the midst of them obeying laws.  They were bringing the ark of the covenant back to it's rightful place.  They were praising God at it's coming, but they put the ark on a cart.  After the death of Uzzah, David got the book of the law and found the correct way to bring the ark back to it's rightful place.  Imagine that.  No deaths that time.  I don't care about how many people you feed or how many turkeys you hand out or how much money you give in envelopes.  If you are doing that to make up for the fact that you treat people like crap, keep your money and your turkey.  Don't use your successes to cover the fact that their are issues you aren't going to deal with.  Sooner or later, you will find that the 1% that you ignore and borderline paleate will be the reason that no one will even remember the 99% you did good.  The old folks used to say 99 and a half won't do.