A Person Driven Life

Much of what is goes for Christianity these days is merely self help program. Nearly every sermon preached from the pulpit pertains to improving self, how to live a purpose driven life, and how to live your best life now. Watch religious tv and see if it is not so. You got your Osteen's and Schuller's spewing out the same self absorbed garbage that got humanity into the mess we're in. Go to a christian book store and start looking at the shelves. Most of the books are about how to improve yourself and your life. It's all about how to think positively and feel really good about yourself. It's sick folks. Almost everything taught from the pulpit and media today is just plain humanism with feel good message attached. There's no gospel to be found.

True Christianity is not about us and how to live our best life now. Christianity is not about becoming something we're not. Christianity is Christ. It's about a living breathing Person. It's about the second Man, the last Adam. It's about the Son of God who came into this world to die in order to save a whole race full of losers. It's about God revealing Himself to this lost world in the likeness of sinful flesh to save us from our sins. It's all about Jesus. We've gotten lost in ourselves and it's time to refocus on Christ. We need to start looking at the big picture. We need a new paradigm to view the world through and it must be in through the framework of God's eternal program.

We have become lost in our own little denominational kingdoms and we need to get back to the Kingdom of God. This self love, self righteous, self sanctification, self absorbed mentality must go. It is not biblical. The Christian life is not becoming something we are not. It is becoming something that God says we already are. I don't know if you've noticed but in the bible it continuously says "In Christ". Apart from Christ we are nothing, but in Christ we are complete. The only struggle we have then is believing God and taking hold of that which we already have, in Christ.

What my main point is though is this... Christ is everything. He is the Head of the body, the church. He is the beginning and the end. He is life itself. He is the truth. He is the way. He is the power and grace of God. In Him all things consist. He is the glue that holds everything in the universe together. Shouldn't He be our focus? We have a risen Saviour who was dead and is alive for evermore and He lives in us! We ought not live by principles, rules, and humanism. We ought not live for ourselves. We ought to live by faith in Him who loved us and gave himself for us. We should have a person driven life not a purpose driven life. That person is Jesus. He's the author and finisher of our faith. He is our life. To ignore Him is to ignore all purpose and all meaning. We need to be consumed with Jesus. In him we live and breath and have our being.