Good morning Everyone,

I read something the other day by A.W. Tozer that I found unsettling.  I don’t know if it was because I agreed with it or I disputed it.  I can honestly agree with the first part but I don’t want to agree with the second.  The saying was this; “To any casual observer of the religious scene today, two things will at once be evident:  one, that there is very little sense of sin among the unsaved, and two, that the average professed Christian lives a life so worldly and careless that it is difficult to distinguish them from the unconverted individuals.”   I do want to point out, this may not be comforting, Tozer was writing in the early to mid-1900s.  Have things gotten better or worse?    In comparison with the ‘average Christian’ over the years, have things really changed?  In the book of Revelation, John seems to be confronted with the same issue.  Revelation 3:15-16 says; “I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot.  I wish you were either one or the other.  So because you are lukewarm, neither hot nor cold, I am about to spit you out of my mouth.”   Has much changed over the centuries?   This is something that one could debate but what is not debatable is the way we as believers should live.  Paul expresses this in Romans 12:1-2; “Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual worship.  Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.  Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is, his good, pleasing and perfect will.”   Are we pleasing God? 

 

God bless,

Pastor Jeff