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The "C" Word

    When someone tells us they love us, it may give us the warm fuzzies, but if the phrase had no other implications it'd be meaningless, right? Why, then, do we choose to live our lives that way? We talk a bunch of talk, but we don't follow through. We say we love God, but then we fail to live our lives in a way that shows it. What does that say about our faith? It says that we are not committed to Jesus Christ. It says we are adulterers with the world. We say we love Him, yet we give ourselves over to darkness instead. Commitment has become a bad word in society today and I challenge you to change that. Honestly evaluate your life-- are you walking out the lifestyle that you say you believe in? Do you really love Jesus Christ enough to completely commit yourself to Him, as a bride does a groom?

Luke 10:27 And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.” (ESV)

Ephesians 4:1 As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. (NIV)

1 John 4:20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. (NIV)

 John 14:15, 21 If you love me, keep my commands. Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them. (NIV)

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