There is this little lie that we as human beings have been fed that pervades our lives and influences our day to day actions. This lie is whispered to us daily: to be effective we have to have it all together, and it is compounded on by the lie that we CAN have it all together. This can be said even more so of Christians; that somehow, to be able to truly walk a walk of faith, we have to be able to meet a set of requirements, to make up for our inadequacies before we can be in relationship with God.
This is called religiosity and I want nothing to do with it.
We have to stop trying. Make loving God another obligation burn out will happen and we end up focusing even more on ourselves. How can you command others to stop sinning in order to love God, when we have to love God to stop sinning? It is when we stop actively loving and pursuing God that we slip into sin.
I need God to help me to love God. That's the beauty of it, our efforts are totally out of the picture. He died so that we could love him, he helps us to love him.
Read it yourself:
Gal. 5 v. 13-14, John 10 v. 10
No comments:
Post a Comment