- "Christian" is probably the most overly, erratically used term that we hear today. What we claim Christian, Jesus claims liars. There is a difference between believing in God and loving God. Even satan believes in God, but he does not love God. When we give scraps of our life to Jesus, but not nearly the whole thing to Christ, we reject God in his all in all beautifully caring form. 90% of you will read this and realize this is you and not do a thing about it, you will carry on with God as part of your life. Did you read that? PART. The creator of the universe wants to be the center of your life and he has a right to be! I mean come on, he is the CREATOR of the universe, of you and me.
"If we claim to have fellowship with him yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth" - 1 John 1:6
2. Religion
- This is my least favorite word of all. God did not mean for Christianity to be a religion. When I think religion, I think of the man who gets to the gates of Heaven and is standing in front of God, probably pretty nervous at this point, and God says "So what do you think of yourself by now? What did you do for me in your time I gave you on earth?" and the man responds in a shaky miniscule voice, "Well I was a good person, never did much wrong, went to church every sunday, held the door for people, good works". I think that's where God had a little giggle. God doesn't want just good works! He wants faith AND action! He wants you to love him with all your heart and everything else will come to it as it should.
"Do not merely listen to the word and so deceive yourselves, do what it says" - James 1:22
3. Life
I saved this for last because we see this as the biggest thing. I hate to break it to you, but this life is not about you. It's not about your girlfriend. It's not about your car. It's not about how big your house is or how much money you make. Life is not about YOUR life. "Busyness" or Laziness" is just our way of resentment towards God. This world is crazy, everyone is busy, everyone is trying to do something to please their life and their living to make things easier on them. Stop only talking to God when you need blessings! How about blessing God? You are not the center of your life, so stop acting like you are. We are all guilty of this and only God can take us away from this.
I want you guys to take 3 minutes of your life and realize how big God is, please watch this. I don't care if you didn't get anything from what I wrote, just please watch this and understand that God is bigger than you are.
4 comments:
great post Alin
thanks for reading ev
did you know the apostles never gave them selves the name "christians"? the people that viewed them and were around them gave them the name "christians" for the way they lived out their lives. true followers of Christ. would we be given the same name if we lived in the times of the apostles? we use words so lightly and freely without thinking of its true meaning.
to be honest, i did know that lol but i know what you mean!
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