Living Your Life For Christ!

Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his own face in a mirror. He sees himself, then goes off and promptly forgets what he looked like. But the one who peers into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres, and is not a hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, such a one shall be blessed in what he does.
James 1:22-25 NABRE

In my first blog post I mentioned my frustration of Christians who only practice their faith for an hour on Sunday and give little thought to it the rest of the week. My faith informs every aspect of who I am as a person and I struggle to understand how something as miraculous as faith in the one true God does not have the same impact on everything you do in your life.  I do not presume to know every thought of every Christian or any Christian for that matter and can only speak to how I feel a Christian should live.   James 1:22-25 (referenced above) speaks of not only hearing the word of God but living out the word of God!

My Story and Questions Without Answers….A Start For A Believer

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me. ”
Matthew 16:24 NABRE

When I was young I always took it for granted that everyone was a Christian and that furthermore, most people were “on fire” for The Lord. My parents raised me in the Presbyterian faith and made sure that I understood that my faith in Christ should always be the center of my life. Towards the end of my time in high school I seriously considered going into the ministry. However like many I fell to the temptations of a fallen world during my senior year and as I began college. I found that going out all night long with friends and sleeping in had become more important than going to church or even making time for prayer. I never stopped believing in God but he surely took a back seat to how I wanted to live my life.