We see it all the time whenever we get on the internet, especially in groups like twitter and facebook. People post things about God and end up with the words: "If you love Jesus (God) repost!" or a challenge to repost it to prove your relationship. Sometimes it comes in other forms that someone sends an email which end up with the words: "If you love the Lord, please forward this to 10 others and send it back to the one who sent it!" People line up to do it and agree. I want you to know that I am not bashing this. Too many get caught up in the game that reposting or returning something proves your relationship with the Lord.
The love for the Lord is shown by your walk not your talk (Luke 6:46/I John 1:6-7). It is easy to talk the Lord but to give Him right, give Him complete entrance to your life is another thing. People wear the little rubber bracelets that ask, "What would Jesus do?" A relationship with the Lord is beyond a rubber bracelet and forwarding some message. It is our life living and sharing in His life.
What happens as the result of a living relationship with Jesus? You bear fruit in His name. Your tongue comes under His control. Your attitudes take on the nature of Jesus. Your life becomes a life of service to lead others to the gospel message that would save them. People say we are to confess Jesus before men as that's what Scriptures teach. Maybe we need to know what it means to confess. It's not just saying, "I love the Lord" or "What would Jesus do?". The word confess literally means to speak the same thing. We are to speak the truth that God speaks about His Son. That means we must speak the same truth as the Lord spoke. If you note, the apostles didn't go around saying, "If you love Jesus, tell 10 others and come back and tell us!" They spoke a gospel saving message to change lives into the likeness of Jesus.
Please understand again, this is not to hurt anyone but to call us to an awareness that sayings passed down by others means little. Living the life we have been called to is what makes the difference. If I have to proclaim my own love in words and not in the way I live daily, there is something missing. A living, loving relationship with the Lord is beyond forwarding some email, a comment on facebook or twitter and a rubber bracelet! "Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and in truth." (I John 3:18)
2 comments:
AMEN and AMEN!
Yes, AMEN.
Although, this is not something new. The world would like to think it is with all the advancements in technology.
Take a look back at how the Pharisees acted about the Law and how they were so quick to appear "righteous" through their words when they were not.
Throughout Matthew 23 Christ calls them Pharisees, you hypocrites!
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