Give Up the Act

Look, if we really are serious about our walk with God, then we better act like it. If we are stewarts of the house God has given to us, we better make sure our houses don't contain anything that offends God. If we say we love God, then we had better be very careful to actually follow his commandments. If we say that we trust God's word and that it is relevent for all time, then we better not pick and choose the parts we like, and discard the parts we think don't fit conveniently with today's culture. If we are to be symbols of God's purity, we had better not present ourselves as a prostitute, both in dress and mannerism. If we are putting on the whole armour of God, we better be soldiers who are wise enough to actually use it. If we proclaim to be God's people and yet live like the world, then we are luke warm and spat out by God. It is pretty hard to profess to be a christian when God himself says 'I never knew you, away from me evil doer". We must get our acts together.

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It wasn't long ago, I was searching through the scriptures, read my entire bible for the first time, and ran into so many incredible things there that defied how we are currently portraying christianity. I read the bible again... I must have misunderstood something. We're there other's who saw things by biblical truth? I started to look into other religions- Jehova's Witness, Mormon, Seventh day Adventist, ect. The first thing that struck my mind with them is their passionate conviction for what they beleive( though through much time and biblical study, I have found these groups to not hold up to complete bible doctrine), a passionate conviction that is completly unheard of in most proffessing evangelicals christians.I got down on my knees and and cried for the Lord to show me mercy and wisdom in this area. What began was a huge search.Was I just being legalistic? Am I just misunderstanding something? When little red flags would go up in my mind, was I just being unrealistic? When something the church or christians ( or myself for that matter) would make me feel uneasy, I could never understand why, nor put words to it so I often kept quiet about it. My search though kept leading to clues and widened my mind as too how far we have strayed from God's truth. I had to start somewhere though, and one of those things that rubbed me the wrong way was having my chilren in public school. I took them out this last year, even though I was pregnant with my 5th child, and not sure how I would be able to do it all, I rested on God's strenth...if this was a commandment of his, then who was I to argue. I began homeschooling. My search for truth continued. Then finally, I stumbled upon what I had been looking for... people who feared God in their hearts and minds, who had passionate conviction based on the word of God. Everything that rubbed me the wrong way before that I had no words for... they became my words...I could almost remember leaping out of my chair thinking... THAT'S IT!!! that is what it is I've been noticing! I wasn't just some crazy legalist. I was a person who didn't want to be a whishy-washy christian, I wanted to go full board! And now I know why. It is a world that we never understood in our present day of christiandom because we have strayed so far from what the bible says. We live in a time where evolutionary, humanistic, and feministic thinking has replaced everything we hold dear in both our lives and the church. And now I can see it! Oh, had I known these things sooner, it could have saved me so much grief and heartache. But better late than never...and the difference it has made in my home is astounding! I welcome you all to my blog... let me tell you of what the Lord has done!