I've been realizing lately that I went through a few years of my life being deceived. Through high school and into freshman year of college, I thought that if I was just living my life the right way, everyone would see it and want to know what was different about me. This held up, to a point, but there is another level of being a Christian that I seem to have overlooked or disregarded.
I know now that God placed me in that public high school and in a room with those worldly roommates for a reason. At the time, I thought that I was just supposed to shine the Light and hope that they would realize that they needed to follow the straight and narrow like I was. But there is another responsibility that goes along with reflecting the Son: lovingly sharing with those dark people around us the error of their ways.
"Remember, it is sin to know what you ought to do and then not do it." -- James 4:17.
I knew that I needed to be more bold about my faith and the implications of living a Christian life. Not only was I responsible for pursuing the Lord, but God had given me people who needed encouragement to do the very same.
"When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the obligation to do right." --Romans 6:20.
The LORD has been pounding that into my head this morning. I was living in sin and I didn't even know it. I felt absolutely no pull towards having those difficult conversations with the people around me. If I couldn't be bold in my witness to others, then how could I possibly boldly come before the Throne of Grace with confidence (Hebrews 4:16)? How selfish of me. This world is not our home, so why do we treat it like it is all about us?
It is all about Him!
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