Many people believe in hard work and good luck, but not in God’s wisdom and supernatural intervention. Maybe you know someone like this?
Many people don’t get serious about who God is; they generally ignore what He says. Their philosophy of life is “get by.”
Jesus got to the crux of the matter when He told His disciples, “. . .You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.” (Matthew 22:37).
What does God really expect of me?
Nothing less than complete obedience will do. If we don’t obey His requirements for salvation we will be lost. If we don’t obey His requirements for living we are wasting our life, and we are being a stumbling block to others who need to know Him as Lord. Getting by is never good enough.
What’s holding us back?
- Tradition, culture
- Apathy
- Misunderstandings in the past
- Beliefs that take the place of worshipping only the God of the Bible
- Rebellion against God — what we think He caused to happen, what we don’t like about the Bible, what we don’t like about His plan of salvation and His way of life for us.
- We think we’re doing OK and don’t want to appear to be fanatic.
- Peer pressure from people around us
- We may have convinced ourselves that we are Christians because we used to go to Sunday School when we were kids.
- (Can you add to this list?) . . .
Does God allow people to make up their own rules?
