UP OR DOWN?

I feel like Ted Dekker must have felt when writing the Circle series. He touches on where Christianity is today, and expresses his feeling on what it would be like if Christ came back today... For one all that we are doing would seem as though it were nothing, and we would be embarrassed to stand beside Christ and see how little effort we put into following him! What seems so big or hard in our minds at the time, is really smaller than the eye of a needle.


Now when I say our faith is work based I am referring to the verses in James where it says, faith without works is dead. The Bible also says that you will know them by there fruit. This would suggest that if Christians does nothing, then is it possible they are not truly saved? I mean if a persons life is supposed to be radically changed after being saved, then if their activities didn't change would that not also suggest that their life has not truly changed? And therefore not truly saved? On the other hand our salvation is by no means something that you can achieve. It is a free gift from God. But does that mean we are not required to do "works", after the point of salvation?


These are all questions that are going through my head. And I am striving to know my Lord and Savior more and more. And I can't help but think that the life I'm leading is not what he wants from me. He wants more. He wants ALL of it. All of it. But what does that mean, ALL of it? what am I missing? I have a yearning so deep, to satisfy it would be like diving into a lake and breathing water. Where the water is the living word of God! Yet I am weak, and drowning is not appealing to my flesh.


We say we want to be more like Christ, and we say we want to know what it means to be a real Christian. But is it because we want live that way? Or is it because we want to have a choice, and be able to pick and choose how we live? Is it really about a better relationship with Christ, or is it all about having the choice? I know I have talked a lot about this subject, but it seems to keep coming up in conversation with the people I talk to. So I keep writing about it.


And that does it for this post... Goodnight!