Watered Down Christians
I saw a quote the other day. It said “ lukewarm
Christianity is so widely practiced that Biblical Christianity seems radical”.
And that is absolutely true.
For Jesus said take up your cross.
Not the bass boat. Not the mountain cabin. Not the
resort, but your cross.
We have taken Christianity and made ourselves feel
special for we are the chosen ones. Yet in and of ourselves is nothing special,
our specialness comes from Him.
You have done none of it yourself.
He came to this earth, lived and died for your sins was
buried and rose again the third day. He gave you the Word. He gave you the
Bible. He called you to Him. He revealed Himself to you! You didn’t go
searching for Him until He revealed Himself to you.
We have so many ‘ex’ Christians, ‘ex’ pastors and ‘ex’
teachers because they never met Him, they met some form of religionist.
Today’s Christian is more and more alike to the religious
elite in Jesus day.
They felt they were special for they were sons of
Abraham; they were the Tribes of the ones God Himself chose for His people.
Yet they forgot that very God. They served themselves and
their “vision” “version” of Him.
Do you know why they never recognized Christ? Because
they would never come to this earth and live in poverty, they would never have
done what He did for it had no benefit for them. They were only interested in
what they got out of life, religion. Leadership and authority.
Christ cared about the things of God and that alone, man
can not understand that for man looks to man’s interests and can not fathom
that God does not share our interests or our ambitions. He is God, it is all
already His.
Mat 10:34
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but
a sword.
Mat 10:35 For
I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against
her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
Mat 10:36 And
a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Mat 10:37 He
that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that
loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Mat 10:38 And
he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of
me.
Mat 10:39 He
that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake
shall find it.
At what point can
that be taken as enrich yourselves, your best life is the goal?
