Do we truly Drink?!?!

You can lead a deer to water but you can't make it drink.. everyone knows this saying, and it seems so cliche', but you'd be surprised how much it applies to our walk with Christ.

People can teach you about Jesus, but until you take that drink and taste of His goodness, your just a deer chillin by a lake.


Something so profound that we overlook that is right in front of us. Going to church doesn't make you a follower of Christ. Being nice to people doesn't make you a follower of Christ. Following Him in all he calls you to do, trusting Him in all things, and loving Him above yourself, that makes you a folower of Christ. What does a follower do?? He follows. I wonder if people who label themselves christian understand the weight of giving yourself that label. Christian means little Christ, or to be like Christ. How often can you or i really say we are worthy of refering to ourselves as little christs. I'm not worthy of that title. I screw up ALL the time. Alot of the time we come to church on Sunday thinking we have fulfilled our christian duties, and we go to bible study because well, people might talk if we don't. What does tha say about your devotion to Christ? That it is based on how good He will make you look to other people What does that say about your thirst? I have come to realize recently, that Christ = life, all other things =death. I know that is a strong statement to declare, especially for me to declare. But it has become my reality. Wth so many people around me questioning everything i do, and who i talk to, or with whom i spend my time, i have realized that i am not capable of making everyone i my life hapy with the choices i make. There will always be people who second guess my heart, there will always be people who look down at me. But my life is not based and can not be based on what these people think of me. What Christ thinks is what matters most. If i am living a life that is of worship to Him every day. If i can thank Him for each thing He teaches me everday, and i can do al i can to know Him more and more each day, then that is all my life needs to be about.

Going to church is an amazing thing, provided you are going for the right reasons. i love church, i love worshiping God with other believers. I love when God speaks directly to my heart through what is being preached. But if we are just going to church and then coming home, and doing nothing with what we have learned or been taught that is a very big problem. If someone is starving we are told to feed them. Yet there are so many people who are starving for truth, for reality and for hope, and yet we keep our pretty little mouths shut, until the "perfect time" to tell someone about Christ. Thats crap people. Real crap because as scripture says we do not know the time or the hour. Now is the time, our hope that we have within us, is something urgent, it's not something that can wait till tomorrow. We are told to always be prepared to be able to give an account for the hope that is within us. Always..that's the word i want to concentrate on. Always doesn'tmean when it's conveinent, always does not mean, when you have the time, always means all the time. Your life is not on your schedule, it's on God's schedule.

If we are truly drinking in God's goodness, why are we being so greedy so as not to share that with others? Jesus says if ANYONE is thirty let him come unto me and drink. That doesn't mean the people that you believe should hear the good news. It is for anyone who wants it. If the church doesn't even want it, how can we expect, others to want it? If people can't look at our lives and say wow, so and so, is always talking about this God that they serve, or if others even within the body can't see our desire to know God more how are be going to be building each other up? If we don't have hope within us, except that we are good church going people how are we going to help those who feel hopeless and broken? I'm not only writing this for others but for myself as well, because i have had to take a good hard look at myself lately. I am asking myself these same questions, and my desire is to be someone who not only talks about Christ, but lives Christ.