"Cus he is the truth
Said he is so real...
And if I am a reflection of Him/ then I must be fly/ Because his light/it shines so bright/I wouldn't lie"
Then there is another song that goes "He will be there for you/ He will always come through/ Yes He's God, he is the truth."
For me, the "He" and the "God" = The Trinity: God the Father, Jesus the Christ, and the Holy Spirit. I am not not ashamed to confess that I am a Christian-not in the super-religious, judgmental, condemning kind of way as many take that to be. Moreso in the I love Jesus, I'm striving to grow from His teachings, and I want to be as real, loving and truthful as he was kind of way. That being said, my truth is the teachings of and life of Christ that are found in the Bible. This particular blog posting is my analysis of the way those that confess to be Christians handle this Truth.
It seems to me that if you feel that the truth you believe or accept is life-changing, then it should do just that: change your life. I am not speaking of performance or trying to make yourself seem as though you are something that you are not, but there should be evidence of growth (or for that matter effort towards growth) toward what it is you say you are striving to do or be. Granted, no one is going to be on it all the time and there is a guarantee that, if you are human, you are going to mess up! That's kind of a part of the game! I think that there is an issue that needs to be addressed as it relates to what we do with the truth.
I titled this post "A Convenient Application of an Inconvenient Truth" because of my belief that this is how many of us as Christians live our lives (myself included!). The fact of the matter is that the teachings of Christ and obedience to him go against our very nature. In order for us to realize the value of these truths, to allow these truths to be applied to our lives, and to see the change that these truths bring about, we have to unlearn our old way of thinking and doing things and allow God to reprogram us to see and do things his way. Instead of giving ourselves to this process whole- heartedly, many of us just decide what areas we are going to allow to be exposed to the truth and don't allow it (the truth) to go much further than our parameters. The areas that we don't necessarily want to change or fear what that change could be, we keep to ourselves. It becomes a sort of " God you handle that stuff, and I'll handle this stuff." We conveniently apply the truth to try to cater God to our lives instead of turning them (our lives) over to Him.
I will refrain from giving examples but ask yourself, am I allowing God to deal with every area of my life or am I trying to make Him fit through the rat maze that I call my life-only allowing Him to go the areas that I've set up for him to go. The only reason that Jesus was soo effective was because of how much he yielded Himself to God the Father. He learned obedience and the more He did, the more He grew and the more effective he became. Let us dare to be the frontiersmen that go into the unknown territory. Better yet, let's commit to let God go into the areas that we've sought to keep Him out of for so long. The result, we will truly be reflections of Him- fly and all. Others will be drawn to us as we submit and yield ourselves to Him and we can direct them to the truth whose presence is evident in our lives. I once saw a bumper sticker that said, "Be a revolutionary, practice your faith!" That is what I would challenge all of us do with this one addendum, practice it whole-heartedly.
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