Breaking Point

I believe there comes a point in the life of every believer when they must either break with the world or break with God. I think I am coming to that point in my life. I feel the Spirit of God drawing me to deep commitment. Radical commitment. Dangerous commitment. Real love. Reading through 2 Corinthians today reaffirmed to me that if I am indeed a new creation as 5:17 describes me, I must break with the old creation. Now maybe I won't die in some God forsaken rainforest as Jim Elliot and Nate Saint did. Maybe I won't serve a 13-year sentence of torture, hard labor, and imprisonment as Haralan Popov did. Maybe I won't even live outside the US. I don't know. But what I do know is that I need to be more concerned with the approval of God in my life than I do with the approval of men. I need to be open to these things if that's what God is calling me to. I need to love. The love of Christ compels me.

I urge you to decide where you stand on the truth of Scripture. If the Bible is true, we must all pour ourselves out for the glory of God and live to Him. If it's false, we need to stop going to church, stop reading Christian books, and stop singing praise music. If Christ is not alive, Christianity is a dead religion and only fools pursue Him. If Christ is alive, we must see the world as crucified to us and us to the world. I know that Christ has risen from the dead. So I am choosing to abandon my previous way of thinking and living. I've seen and heard things that I cannot explain apart from this reality. The reality is that Jesus Christ died for sins, was buried, rose again, and ascended into heaven to prepare an eternal inheritance for us and intercede on our behalf. I have to let that truth affect how I spend money, what job I take, what person I marry, and everything that I say, think, and do. I am not my own. I was bought at a price.

Anyway, I feel like I'm kinda rambling. I just needed to throw this out there. Please consider it prayerfully.