Friday, September 25, 2009
What is wrong with Christianity?
So I know I havent been sharing in my blog the past few days, I know I have been kind of inconsistent from the start of it. It's not that I haven't been doing my quiet time, I just have forgotten to wrtie my blog because classes have started again and I have alot of other things on my mind. But quiet time has still been awesome recently. So anyways sorry but this blog is not about quiet time either. It is just something that God sparked in my heart through a seminar on biblical principals we started today. Here are just a few things out of the many that struck me. We (yes including myself) have become very legalistic in our thinking and actions. I want you to think about why you do things and please be honest with yourself. Why do you read your bible and pray (if you even do it)? Well I know in my life many times it is done out of duty. I really wish I could say that I have a fervent desire to daily dive into God's Word. That I can't wait to read it and learn and apply from it. But sadly that is not always the case. Yes, I do have those days but I also have many days where I do it out of duty. Now, I should still do it because even when I am doing it out of duty, God still speaks and convicts, but not in the same way because , our hearts are not open. You know what I find to be the case; when we get busy, the first thing to suffer is our time with God. That is the painful reality. Here is another thought for you. Why has Christianity been made into an event rather than a lifestyle? Evangelism, discipleship, worship, all these things should not be what we do, but who we are! We invent all these programs that we set up to evangelize and we never do it any other time. Worship, well that has become something that only happens when the praise band plays. We should have individual lives of worship to God that are so passionate, so real, so fervent that when we come together as a coorporate body of believers, the roof raises and God is honoured. My friends, God is not honoured with Sunday morning worshipers, that is those who only worship Him then. We have got to get serious. We are so legalistic that we continually do ministry, do quiet time, do worship so we can try to earn points with God and get Him to like the way we live our lives, when all He says is "just pick up your Bible and I will show you what I like". Convicting thought that I will leave with you as I close. Let's live our lives based on biblical principals and lets let our Christianity be a lifestyle; a lifesong pleasing to God. Let us live out the lives that Christ has given us in Him!
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