What are we living for?

What is the church? Is it a group of people that come together on sunday? Is it a group of people that hang out during the week? Whats the point of church? Why are we so ok just hanging out? Really is this what we are called to? I feel like something is so wrong about how we are doing church. Where is the urgency?? When i think about the Word of God, and I think about the second coming of our Lord and Savior I feel a sense of immediate urgency. I feel like i need to get up and go tell everyone about the gospel right now! Any second we could be called up into heaven! I might not even finish this sentence let alone this blog post before we are called up to answer for ourselves in the courts of the Lord Most High! Do we really beleive that?? And our jaded selves automatically say yes, but really do we? Do our lives show that? What are we doing with our lives? Are we using our time and resources to Glorify God or are we wasting our time with tv shows, video games, work, school, sleep, laziness, facebook, youtube, friends? What will i regret when I am called before the Lord to give an account of what I did here on earth? Am i living for this life or for eternity?! When I read paul's letters I get this picture of his life, and what the life of a follower of Christ should look like. Our lives should look completely rediculously foolish to the world! People should not come to the faith because our lives are easier and are better since we came to Christ. Not that they arent those things, but not in the way that this world will recognize. Yes! my life is easier knowing that Christ the king of kings, the lord of lords is with me and that the spirit of God is in me! And my life is better knowing that I will spend eternity in heaven with Christ! But do not misunderstand me, this life will be hard if I am to follow Christ! I am called to give up everything for the sake of Christ! It isnt a halfway thing here, it is all or nothing! You can not go half way with Christ! And anyone who tells you different is of the evil one and will perish! Christ calls you to give everything to him! Anyone who seeks to hold on to his life will lose it, but anyone who loses his life for the sake of Christ will gain it! May all Glory and praise be to the Lord!

Why do we think that we can just go to church on sunday and maybe say a prayer a week and thats what it means to follow Christ? I am sickened at the thought! What irreverence! Are we not sick of the idea of the hypocritical christian!! Are we not sick of the bullhorn christian? Then why do we not live out our faith?! I sit here, and am ashamed to say I have not read the Word in over 5 days!? What is it that makes me think that I am following Christ with all of my life? How can i follow Christ if i do not know him!? I am appalled at myself. Christ says that the way we love him is by following his commandments. How can i follow his commandments if I do not read them, constantly keeping his word on my heart? The only way we can know the Lord is through reading the Word of God! We have been given this amazing gift, I dont even understand how awesome it is! Here we have the Words of our Lord!

Just sit and think about that for a second.

Our God, the one who created the universe.

The one who created this earth as a gift to us.

The one who created you, and put you together in your mother's womb.

The one who named ever single star, and planet.

The one who spoke everything into existence.

The one whos very breath is the very thing that gave us life.

The one who hears every thought you have.

The one who knows every tear you shed.

The lord of lords, and king of kings.

Whos glory is declared in the sky.

Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess his glory.

And if we ceased to praise His name, the rocks would begin to cry out in praise of Him!

The one who gave His Son, to die on the cross, to take your place as the subject of God's wrath for your sin!




He gave us his very words. . .
The words of God himself!!! How mind blowing is that?? And yet we have to force ourselves to read it?!??! What is this?? Oh how sorrowful am I! Thinking at how Ive had to force myself to read such a thing! Oh, we should be dying to read the words of God! To learn of God, and to spend time with Him through his words! Oh what else could offer such joy on this Earth?