What do our lives communicate?

The guy who comes home after long, laborious days, yet sits awake late into the night studying the Word of God, I can tell you what that communicates. Or the young girl whose heart bleeds not to impress the next potential husband, but to be a woman of virtue, to do good works, to advance the Kingdom, to please Christ. I know what her life communicates. Then there’s the guy who weeps as he endures another sleepless night over the perishing souls in his office, and in the world. And the girl who forgets what it means to be “cool” forever, and whose friends are the people this world says are not cool. They get not just her 10 minutes before church starts, but her affection and honor and love. I can tell you what her life communicates.

“Christ is everything,” we say, but what do our lives communicate?

Is He everything everyday, or only around other Christians, or only when it’s convenient, comfortable, safe, easy?

Do we act one way when we’re around other Christians, and then as soon as the environment shifts, begin to gossip, and be unkind, and take pleasure in a variety of other “subtle” sins?

These are serious questions. Life is serious. Following Christ is serious. “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me,” He says (Luke 9:23). Yes we may struggle in our walk, sometimes immensely, but if in that vein I’m going to justify the taking of these matters lightly, I have to be shown where in the Bible they are taken lightly.

~ by nve on August 15, 2008.