“Do I really believe that what I believe is really true?” Over the past few months, I’ve found myself asking this question again and again. You see, the Christian life is filled with temptation. Many times that temptation is to sin. But there are times when the temptation for a Christian is to become lazy. And through our laziness we become content; content with our level of spiritual maturity, content with watching others do all the work instead of helping out, content with seeing people in need instead of meeting those needs. We become content with “doing” church instead of “being” the church. When we become lazy, we don’t want to be flexible. When we aren’t flexible we won’t change. When we won’t change, we won’t ever allow ourselves to be used by God. When you experience God on a regular basis, you will be changed.
Gideon would have been content being a coward and God changed that. Moses would have been content shepherding his father-in-law’s flocks in Midian and God changed that. David would have been content in a life as a shepherd and God changed that. The disciples would have been content in the lives they lived before they came face to face with Jesus and Jesus changed that. God has a way of changing things. God has a way of showing up and messing up our whole lives for the better.
When you are forced to really evaluate what you believe, you find out what you really stand for. If you find that you really believe that Jesus is who he said He was, then the Christian life begins to make sense to you. Sharing the Gospel becomes easier. Giving becomes second-nature. Loving our enemies becomes as routine as morning coffee. When you believe that what we really believe is really true, the Christian life is no longer strict adherence to a set of traditions or rules, but an expression of worship to Jesus.
So let me ask you: What do you believe?
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