1. Following Christ in a broken world...

Introduction:

In all honesty this is supposed to be a reasonably simple topic to write about, especially because I am a Christian myself. I grew up in a Christian home, attended Church every Sunday with my family, was the guitarist for our Fellowship, I hastily read my devotional before going to bed…the list goes on and on and on. Well, it isn’t a simple one for me.

When people ask me what my religion is I proudly reply “Christian.” The truth is I have come to realize that in this stage of my life I have no right to “proudly” call myself a Christian as such. The past few years I have been living in the lukewarm area of following Christ. I basically was living the Christian life for myself, trying to win the perks of being a Christian while still 99.9% of the time I was focusing on indulging in the world. Now I didn’t indulge in bad actions necessarily, but I was not living my life for God, which is the absolute most important thing when being a follower of Christ. I put many, many other things in life first, I put them before Him.

I recently had someone --- who I greatly admire and have more respect for than I can put into words --- put a lot of perspective into my life. Just by a simple prayer before we had dinner. The prayer might have sounded simple, but there was such burning passion and intense love for the Lord in that prayer which hit me much harder than I thought it would, especially thinking back on it now – for me it was ground shaking and disturbed my emotional balance immensely because I realized how hungry I was for that same passion for Christ. The Lord opened my eyes through her, in such a simple way reminded me that our lives on earth are to give all the Glory to Him, to seek His Face and to be an example to others and shine His light that they may also see and experience the Truth and His Glory…

Which I haven’t been doing. So, the reason I am writing this is because I feel more motivated than ever to renew that relationship I used to have with the Lord, because the moment you truly seek His face you automatically become an example to the people around you. I want to help people follow the Lord Jesus Christ in the broken world we live in…

So yes, this Is part one. As I grow in Christ and become richer in His Word, I will continue with part two 😊 Stay tuned…

04/09/2021