Greetings.
Lots of good advice in this post. One thing I have learned as a Christian is that only one thing is really needful in our lives. We are so caught up in the things of this world, the cares of life, our wants, desires, expectations, demands, and problems that we can very quickly lose sight of the one thing that is most important for us to keep our focus on.
When our eyes are fixed on Jesus, we can feel as if we could walk on water. When we take our eyes off Him and fix them on the things of this world, we begin to sink. Many Christians have unbelief in their life that they are not even aware of. After the intial experience of finding Jesus wears off, those areas of unbelief will begin to bubble up. That is not a bad thing, because that is the way the Holy Spirit works in us to santify us.
The problem is that the church today does not teach us how to work thorugh our unbelief. Discipleship is the way to continue on the journey to follow Jesus and work through each barrier of unbelief on this journey, one step at a time, one truth at a time. Go to uncommondisciples.org and go through the two series "Knowing God" and "Follow Me".
The primary problem in the Christian chruch today is that we are often not living the truth we proclaim to believe. For instance, many will say, "of course I trust God". They believe they trust God but they really don't. When you look at the amount of fear, doubt, worry and stress in the life of the average Christian, how can they say they trust God. When fear, doubt, worry and stress are present, faith has flown away. At that instance we have stopped believing that God is able.
Mike
Mike
