Demanded Decision

A question has been ravaging my thoughts as of late. “If we truly believe what the Bible says to be true…how come we don’t live like it, how come our lives don’t reflect it?”

Think about it. First off, theres the whole thing about being in intimate relationship with the creator of the FREAKIN UNIVERSE!! The Bible says he created it all, from the largest of the galaxies, suns, and planets, down to the molecules of the smallest blades of grass and grains of sand. Don’t know about you…but even an idea or notion, much less a fact, of a God that huge and powerful being interested in lil o me…pretty much blows my mind into mush.

We claim to follow after and know this God incarnate named Jesus (theres a second one, that same creator God, becoming man so He could fully point the way and pay the price that we couldn’t…WOW!), one who raised people from the dead, healed the blind and crippled, who set the captives of darkness free. We talk about these things in church and think about them in the recesses of our minds with a complacency as if they are commonplace today. As if it’s the norm of life, taking no effort or feat of something that is beyond our own abilities. He raised the DEAD!!! He made the blind to SEE!! If we truly believe these things to be true, real, and tangible, does it not command our full attention?

Jesus himself said that he is the way, the truth, the life. If we believe that to be true, shouldn’t we be taking our relationship to God seriously? Not simply giving the Lord the scraps of our time, but instead, giving Him the priority over all things in our lives. For is it not true that our Christian belief is that our relationship with God is the one thing that we have in this life that will carry over with us after death? Again, I wonder why the wholehearted pursuit of God isn’t our top priority of life.

It seems to me as if we as Christians have become blinded and lulled to sleep about the true and full weight that our beliefs carry. We now come to a point of decision. Either we believe what the Bible says to be true, realizing that it calls us to decision, action, and change in the entirety of our lives. To a change that MUST happen out of response and recognition of who God is . Or we resign ourselves to believe that the Bible is simply a book of fairy tales and myths, something barely worth our passing glance. If that is so, we might as well toss it aside and in the trash, for it holds no more worth than any other book on our shelves. Probably less in fact…if that is true.

I know my decision. I cannot deny the experiences that I've had. I cannot deny the impact and change that the book of so called fairy tales and myths has brought about in my life. I also cannot deny that the God of the Bible is real and tangible. A God that is beyond my full comprehension and understanding. He is the only God that is truly big enough, and powerful enough, and benevolent enough to bring about such incredible miracles that are seen in the Bible. So I say and pray, Lead on dear Abba, your child is seeking after you.

May our lives truly reflect our beliefs and claimed priorities.