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What do you want out of your Christion experience?
I often wonder if believers take Christianity seriously enough. If asked, we all would say we want to please God or perhaps live for God. While an admirable attitude, many in today’s church can explain all about Harry Potter’s villains or catalog Star Trek’s different cultures but cannot explain the elementary truths of Christ’s cross or resurrection and how it applies to us. Not to mention how we know we are pleasing God.
Many, perhaps most, in the modern church continue to think, along with the unbelieving world, that one has to be “good enough” to get into heaven. Only a colossal ignorance of the bible can lead one to that conclusion. It is plain our attempts at righteousness is viewed by God as “filthy rags (Isa 64:6).
What, then does God expect out of us, including the lifestyle we lead? I think God himself has told us clearly. Micah 6:8 says “He has shown you, O man, what is good! And what does the LORD require of you but to do justly, love kindness and to walk humbly with your God.”
Most believers I know get the first two pretty well. But to walk humbly with our God is the hardest part. Many may think it should read “obey your God”, but then those people would not understand God. He wants a lifestyle that reflects positively on the Christian and, by extension, Christ himself. He also wants an obedient church.
However, God’s greatest desire is to fellowship with his people! That seems to be the one thing we are reluctant to do. We will develop and obey meticulously any number of rules, go to the farthest parts of the earth to spread the gospel but to learn to listen to that “still small voice” of the spirit and sit in silence waiting for Him is too much to ask. How tragic!
Unless we are willing to see the Christian walk isn’t about being “good” enough (Rom 3:20) but about Christ Himself and our being “in” Christ as well as our being “conformed into the image of Christ” we will never reach the fulfillment God has promised
All he asks is desire, He will do the rest just as He always has. You won’t be disappointed.
Winston
I often wonder if believers take Christianity seriously enough. If asked, we all would say we want to please God or perhaps live for God. While an admirable attitude, many in today’s church can explain all about Harry Potter’s villains or catalog Star Trek’s different cultures but cannot explain the elementary truths of Christ’s cross or resurrection and how it applies to us. Not to mention how we know we are pleasing God.
Many, perhaps most, in the modern church continue to think, along with the unbelieving world, that one has to be “good enough” to get into heaven. Only a colossal ignorance of the bible can lead one to that conclusion. It is plain our attempts at righteousness is viewed by God as “filthy rags (Isa 64:6).
What, then does God expect out of us, including the lifestyle we lead? I think God himself has told us clearly. Micah 6:8 says “He has shown you, O man, what is good! And what does the LORD require of you but to do justly, love kindness and to walk humbly with your God.”
Most believers I know get the first two pretty well. But to walk humbly with our God is the hardest part. Many may think it should read “obey your God”, but then those people would not understand God. He wants a lifestyle that reflects positively on the Christian and, by extension, Christ himself. He also wants an obedient church.
However, God’s greatest desire is to fellowship with his people! That seems to be the one thing we are reluctant to do. We will develop and obey meticulously any number of rules, go to the farthest parts of the earth to spread the gospel but to learn to listen to that “still small voice” of the spirit and sit in silence waiting for Him is too much to ask. How tragic!
Unless we are willing to see the Christian walk isn’t about being “good” enough (Rom 3:20) but about Christ Himself and our being “in” Christ as well as our being “conformed into the image of Christ” we will never reach the fulfillment God has promised
All he asks is desire, He will do the rest just as He always has. You won’t be disappointed.
Winston