There IS a God, he is out there, he is omniscient, he is bigger than we could ever imagine, he created the stars and the heavens, he can count and number all the hairs on your head, he is powerful and glorious beyond comprehension.... Hopefully you at least know this much to be true.... If you don't already, please please come to terms....
What even more of us don't realize, however; is that one day (on judgement day) each and every one of us is going to have to sit in front of this all powerful and mighty creator and explain our lives to him. We are going to have to explain every sin, we are going to have to explain why we flipped that driver off this morning. We are going to have to explain why we just passed that homeless person by as if he was nothing more than a piece of dirt. I could go on and on, because we all make a hundred mistakes each day. And the fact of the matter is one day we are going to stand before God and have to account for our lives...
Accounting for our lives means much more than explaining our sins however. See Jesus already came, and gave his life so that we may be forgiven for these wrong doings. But I think some of us wrongfully get wrapped up in this idea that "I can do whatever, sin whenever, act however, and I will be forgiven for my sins no matter what. Because I have accepted Christ..."
Yet we can't live this way....
There is so much more to having a faith in Christ... My heart breaks right now as I discover these shattering truths. I am sick to death of this half-assed Christian lifestyle that I currently am leading and that so many around me are enacting. As I digress, understand that I going to sound as if I am blowing up on my fellow brothers in faith. As if I am taking the high road here, scolding my fellow Christians. But in reality, although this applies to SO MANY Christians, I am really speaking down upon myself, I am let down in myself..... It is me that is guilty here.
Being a Christian means more than just accepting Christ as your savior. It means having FAITH. Faith means totally trusting in God, but the way we live doesn't reflect this! So what you have accepted Christ as your savior... Prove it! Prove it by trusting in Jesus to such a degree that you give him EVERYTHING. Not just giving him your attention when its convenient, not just offering God "just enough to get by". So what you call yourself a Christian, this means NOTHING. Prove it! I can blog all I want about how great God is, I can quote the bible and make my Facebook status some life applicable Bible quote, but when I go out the next day and swear 50 times with my baseball team then it all means nothing... In my opinion, actions speak louder than words. I can say I am a Christian all I want, but unless I take up the cross and act it out each day than it doesn't matter. Some day we are going to have to sit in front of God (the maker of the universe) and explain before him our lives. Are you going to sit in front of the all powerful and mighty maker of the universe and say "But God, I called myself a Christian, I pretended to be this great follower in front of all of my peers, and I went to church on Sundays!"
I have news for you, God isn't going to care, he is going to care about your actions, not about how you pretended to be. One day you are GOING TO HAVE TO SIT IN FRONT OF GOD IN HIS THRONE AND ACOUNT FOR YOUR ACTIONS... If you truly have a faith in Jesus Christ than you will stop living a half-baked life. You will stop doing the minimum and start doing the maximum... No matter what this means, no matter the cost, no matter the sacrifices...
I can't keep being this person. God isn't going to pull out a 13'' Macbook Pro on my Judgement day, look at my blogs and Facebook and say "Well my son, you sure came across as a follower of Christ, you gave me 10% so I will give you an eternity here with me, your 10% was good enough for me my boy!" :-)
NO!!!! He is going to confront me, he is going to make me explain my actions to him. He is going to make me account for everything I have done. He is going to make me explain why I wasted my time, resources, wealth, opportunities... He is going to speak with such a thunderous voice that my body will shake with fear to such a point that I will barely be able to catch my breath in order to even speak one word... One day I am going to have to sit in front of the Maker of the Universe in order to explain myself. I don't want to have to make excuses, I don't want to have to apologize, I want to be able to say "God, with all that you gave me, with every resource and blessing, I did my best to glorify you and further your Kingdom. Though I am only human, and though I am small, I did through your Holly Spirit everything I could to further your Kingdom, to your name be the glory..."
There is so much more to being a Christian......... I pray I can learn to act on this, that I can learn to focus on what matters most, and that I can learn to live for God every second of every day....
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