so many emotions, so little time
iiiiiiiiiiiiii have just had a one bad evening. i don't know, it's like no matter how hard i try, my feelings always get in the way. [click.]
a girl i know wrote about this recently on her blog, and i have heard it spoken many times lately. so i've been thinking about a problem american Christians seem to be facing these days. I myself am guilty of this crime... what are we really doing? i mean think about this. how much good are we as Christians really doing???? we have traded our God in for something else. ourselves. it's like we have this whole mentality of "what's in it for me?" instead of truly getting out there and serving God and others. don't get me wrong, i'm all about God's blessings, and he loves giving them. but he's not a genie. and while Christ said he came to serve and give his life as a ransom for many, he also called us to follow in footstep down the narrow path. instead, we sit back in our pews wishing for more wishes and all the while following a wide path.
and another funny thing about all this is, we're too scared to talk about Jesus. we're always being told to shut up and all the while we crawl back in our cages. i believe there is a time for everything under the sun, a time to speak and not to speak, but we should still stand up for the one who gave his LIFE for us instead of worrying about offending joe blow who could really care less if we died in the next second.
and now i'm thinking, i have really got to apply this to my own life. but how how how??? i'm a wretched excuse for a Christian. i'm only saved by grace, thank God.
a girl i know wrote about this recently on her blog, and i have heard it spoken many times lately. so i've been thinking about a problem american Christians seem to be facing these days. I myself am guilty of this crime... what are we really doing? i mean think about this. how much good are we as Christians really doing???? we have traded our God in for something else. ourselves. it's like we have this whole mentality of "what's in it for me?" instead of truly getting out there and serving God and others. don't get me wrong, i'm all about God's blessings, and he loves giving them. but he's not a genie. and while Christ said he came to serve and give his life as a ransom for many, he also called us to follow in footstep down the narrow path. instead, we sit back in our pews wishing for more wishes and all the while following a wide path.
and another funny thing about all this is, we're too scared to talk about Jesus. we're always being told to shut up and all the while we crawl back in our cages. i believe there is a time for everything under the sun, a time to speak and not to speak, but we should still stand up for the one who gave his LIFE for us instead of worrying about offending joe blow who could really care less if we died in the next second.
and now i'm thinking, i have really got to apply this to my own life. but how how how??? i'm a wretched excuse for a Christian. i'm only saved by grace, thank God.