Our Faith In Christ Is Not About Ourselves

It is always a mistake to think that we believe in Christ for our sake. We do believe for God's sake, to glorify Him who is the maker of all things. There are some who think that when we don't believe, we are disappointing God.

Disappointing here is a misuse of word; you are drawing the wrath of God to yourself if you do not believe in Jesus as God's only begotten son and that he alone takes your sin with him. Through Him you receive forgiveness of sins. That in Him you are justified.

If you believe in Jesus Christ and put your hope in Him, God is glorified. When you refuse to believe in Jesus as God's Son, God will receive glory when it is proved to you at the last day that He truly sent Jesus and when you see Jesus Christ coming with his glory to Judge the world.

What then should we do? The bible commands all to repent and turn their eyes on Jesus. This always sounds like a simple thing. Indeed, some people have made this call trivial.

Many have even replaced the call for repentance with the call to come to church and sit there comfortably, practicing morality. Such are the people who forget that morality or immorality are all equally evil before God, unless His only Son Jesus Christ our Lord has cleansed you with his blood.

If you are not born again, you have no reason to practice moral acts. Why is this so? It is because all your moral practices are going to be filthy rags (Isaiah 64:6) before the LORD, God Almighty. Someone will wonder why this is the case.

The answer is simple, we cannot buy God by our moral acts; we cannot bribe him into accepting us if we reject his Son, who bore our iniquities on the Cross. We cannot be counted anything as long as we are outside Christ.

There are some people who look at Christianity as an "exclusivist" religion (if there is such a term). They think that those who call themselves Christians are being self-righteous by telling them that they cannot identify with them unless they put repentance and belief in Christ as their only Savior.

This exclusive idea is true and as a believer who hopes in the Lord, I agree to this accusation. There is a clear cut line and warning which comes in the soft language of John 14:6. John's writing is clear. He is not saying that Christianity is the True religion. No, he is saying something deeper than that.

Jesus is the way the truth and the life. You can simply take Christianity as a religion and start practicing what you see people doing, but that has nothing to offer. You can also decide to obey your parents and go to Church with them in any place simply to please them, but this too gives you nothing. Only Jesus Gives everything. Believe in God and believe also in Jesus his Son so that you will be able to see heaven. This is the condition for life. Lack of obedience to this implies death.

God Is God, and He Never Changes

There is always a wrong notion about God, which people have created. Some have become attracted to the Philosophy of relative view about the Creator. They simply say that it does not matter what you believe, that people have diverse views about the truth. This leads to fundamental questions.

Is it what you believe about God that makes Him into who He actually is? Or is it what He has revealed about Himself that displays His nature to men? If at all it is what men think He is that counts, then all should agree with the theory of relative views. However, if it is what God has revealed about Himself to men that counts, then the theory of relativism about God must be eradicated from the face of the earth.

It is important to remember that the Scriptures are God's infallible words. They tell us what God has revealed about Himself. Far be it from The God of all creation to give men a relative understanding about Himself. Not what people say about God that make him into who He is, it is what God reveals to men that inform men of His nature and His glory. Everything about God can only be known from God.

If you look at nature, it all reveals God's power. And this is not actually what people think, but what is revealed. I believe that the Bible is the only true Word of God and there is no question that can be raised against it and successfully defeat its defense. The Bible defends itself and it is sufficient for all proofs about what is written in it. God is God and this can only be know from the revealed nature about Him. He has revealed this through creation and through the Bible.

Never create a god in your mind and replace the true God with it. Never make one in your imagination and begin to worship. That would be idolatry of the highest form. God is God. The Bible says, “The LORD is God, and he has made his light shine upon us. With boughs in hand, join in the festal procession up to the horns of the altar.” (Psalm 118:27) and “Know that the Lord is God.” (Psalm 100:3).

These are important pointers that the one we ought to worship is not what we have created in the mind, but one who sits on the thrown, the King of Kings and the Lord of lords. He alone should be worship.

Warning! Never create a god in your Mind and worship in the place of the true God of heavens and the earth, the Creator of all things. Never do that. It is Dangerous.