It’s An Action…

Yesterday, I spoke with the Sunday School class that I help teach. I asked them to ask God which of the seeds they were from the parable of the Seed and the Sower. Then I told them to wait for an answer – if they dared.

Have you ever asked God a question and then waited for him to answer? I think that most of us do the first thing: ask a question. But we rarely wait for an answer. The problem is that we really don’t want to hear what God had to say. We’re afraid that he will ask us to do something hard like move to Africa or become a nun/monk/aesthetic/whatever.

If you were playing soccer and wanted to be improve your game, you would ask your coach what you should do. If you were playing piano, singing, playing basketball, wrestling, playing the horn/guitar/trombone you would ask your instructor what you had to do to improve. And then, if you really meant it, you would do it. Whatever that person said, you would make it happen.

So, why do we try to slide when it comes to our Christian life? You said the prayer, yer in.

Yippee. Now what?

Yes, I know that God’s sacrifice of his Son, Jesus, is the greatest gift we’ve been given. Please don’t get stuck on thinking that I am in any way trying to trivialize this.

Do you really think that God intended you to ‘become a Christian’ (sorry for the air quotes) and then never do anything to become a better Christian? I’m not talking about becoming more saved, I’m talking about changing your life. I’m also not talking about doing things so that God will love you more. Seriously, what more does he have to do to prove that he loves you?

Are you serious about this whole Christian thing? Here’s some things that the Bible says you need to do:

Love – John 13:34 – 35
Do your best – II Timothy 2:15
Pick up your cross – Luke 9:23
Look after widows and orphans – James 1:27
Do NOT love the world – I John 2:15-16
Obey his commands – John 14:21
Get to know the Bible – Psalm 119: 9, 11

Yeah, there’s more but that should do for now. Do you want to know how to be a better Christian? Look at the list above and do them. Not so God will love you more or so you can be saved, but so you show people you are a Christian, rather than just tell them.