OK, I haven't blogged for a while. For a couple of reasons; at first it was that were a lot of "good things" that I was doing but at the same time I allowed a lot of distractions that took me away from should be my first love, Jesus. So why begin now? I have been convicted over the last few days that these distractions have caused to me to worry about things that I can't control. First has been the election. I have been praying more than ever over the spiritual condition of our country. I was overwhelmed in my prayer time that the way to save this country from itself is for the church to be the church. Not a pale imitation of itself that is watered down under the belief that unbelievers can't handle the truth at full strength. From there I realized that I must start with myself. The people around me that I want to reach for Christ aren't going to swayed by wishy-washy man that doesn't really stand for anything. At the same time, they aren't going to believe a hypocrite. Imagine this, how many of us visiting a doctor for the first time would hang around long if he walked in with a burger in one hand and smelling of cigarette smoke? Now I am not advocating some set of legalistic checklist to make me look good on the outside and rotting on the inside but instead crying out to God regularly asking for him to search my heart for sin and asking for his strength to overcome it. So I am going to start this and I ask for humility as I begin this journey towards the heart of God.
But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
James 1:22-25
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