More to life than this

 The more I see how culture in America has been shaped and formed in the United States, it truly begins to make me sick how much Christians are backing down. I don't mean Christ isn't still working, or that Christians aren't still doing what they can and helping others "come to Christ" but that's where we tend to stop.

     I think our culture as a whole has forgotten what the meaning of the cross truly is. It isn't simply a tool to a one-time occurrence of living knowing we are going to heaven. The cross was the entirety of the promise of God to the human race, in the old testament. Mankind as a whole has been given more than just a ticket to heaven, but a  season pass to healing, restoration and renewal.
 
    The most incredible aspect to it all isn't that you have accepted Christ and now don't have to worry about working for a spot in the afterlife, but that you accept the reality that God is providentially and relentlessly pursuing your life. It is the same as having the person you look up to the most in life, or even a famous person coming to you and saying, I want to live life with you. You are my greatest joy, and I have laid my life down for you, now walk with me.

     I don't suppose using a celebrity of human figure is quite appropriate, but it gives us the idea of how significant it really is. Truly the more I think I have things figured out, God allows another layer, or wall to come down and let me grow through that. Almost like molting as an insect, You see yourself only as your flesh, as you allow it to come off, although it is a struggle it is freeing and you have grown through it. The great thing is though, is that we will always have another layer that will eventually be ready to come off, because we never stop growing.

     Every moment we surrender over our wills to His, our life becomes something more than living day to day paying bills purposeless. Life isn't about just making it until Christ returns, but a perpetual conflict filled tool God uses to grow and shape us for His will and Glory. The world isn't secular and Christian it is all God's whether it is not filled with His light or not. That is our purpose here though, To reclaim any territory in the enemies clutches, as Kuyper says.


"there is not a square inch in the whole domain of human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over, does not cry, Mine!"

     Let us not get lost in the mentality that our lives are our own for there is nothing in this world we truly can govern and control that our Christ has not already owned and seen. Healing, and restoration is God's desire for our lives and our hearts. He does not send troubles our way to test us, He is like a father watching their child suffer. His greatest desire is to see us want Him, above all things, and admit we need him.

     Why fight what is for our own good, I pray we do not.

Salvation in Christ

We as man have spent most of our days seeking and pursuing truth and life. Everyone wants to be accepted, everyone wants to be loved. These are universal truths among all peoples and among all cultures.

Humanity has spent so much time seeking truth, especially regarding religion, that it is easy to forget why we began to look in the first place. When it comes down to it, all men feel that there is something missing, an emptiness that cannot be filled no matter what we try to fill it with. I think it is safe to say that when we attempt to fill it, it may feel good for a while but brings us right back to where we started, and that is seeking to fill that hole.

Truly I think Christ is the only thing that can fill such a whole that has been laid inside of us. It only makes sense that man is incapable of filling it himself since he is created and not complete in himself. It takes a soft heart and an open mind to be able to accept it, but Christ in Christianity is the only example of self-sacrifice in an act of service to bring all of man to a position of holiness so that he may be close to his creator. No other religion in the world teaches that man is fallen and can’t do anything to save himself, but simply has to rely on a just, loving God.

Romans 3:23

“For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”

 It seems indefinitely difficult to wrap our minds around becoming in touch with God once we realize that we have a sin barrier between us but there is hope.

John 14:6 says

“For I am the way the truth and the life and none come to the Father except through me”

If we choose to accept the one who has accepted all the suffering and pain of the world so that we know God which truly is life, then there is salvation in that. It is not difficult and requires no works or acts for us to be saved. It simply requires a hint of faith.

Romans 10:9

“If anyone believes in their heart that Jesus is Lord and confesses with their mouth that He rose from the dead, they will be saved”

If you believe and confess the verse above, you are a child of the living God and a part of the kingdom of Christ. If you have any desire to know more or learn more about this, leave a comment.

absolute truth in a relative world.

     For some reason our culture has passed on from a time of intellectualism and of authoritative unquestionable truth into an era of relativism. The world has moved from a perspective of being adamant about their own views being unquestionably correct to a place where it seems all religions and belief systems are accepted as sufficient and tolerable. I'd hate to try to throw out there that logic is partially the answer, although I believe it is because man has fallen into a place of non-logic, but it really is just a matter of the heart as are most problems. We have given up even as Christians these days  to refute that abortion, same sex marriage, and even be bold enough to say pre-marital sex is not good. Christians have become a bunch of pansies and  refuse to say something that is truth because they may offend someone. It does say that we must express truth in love, which I agree with, HOWEVER to not even make your position on the issue known out of fear of offense is ridiculous.

     This post-modern time we exist in has had it's affect on the Christian populations views of absolutism in a detrimental way as well. Christians these days are being completely ambiguous and hypocritical to believe in the Bible or even claim Christianity, and not believe the Bible is absolute truth, or to believe there is no absolute truth for that matter. This is becoming a real issue. If we cannot fundamentally believe in something how can we base our life around it?