A wise man once stated that it is impossible to excercise faith in something one cannot comprehend. Hence the religious world of today. There are so many who profess faith in God and His Son Jesus Christ but do no more to follow the teachings and commandments in the Bible than those who profess no faith at all. (I am speaking generally of course) But, how many so called Christians hold fast to the laws of chastitiy? How many people refrain from using the names and titles of Deity in vain. I think the most common phrase we hear is..."Oh my...(and the title or name of Deity)". Using the name of God in vain is to use His name or titles in ANY manner other than reverence and worship. To go on, how many Christians keep the Sabbath Day as a sacred day of worship? (Why are stores open on Sunday, why are sports stadiums filled to capacity on Sunday? To keep the Sabbath Day holy would a 24 hour period of time would it not? Obviously our loves and desires for "worldly" things are greater than our love for God.
God does not change. He is perfect. He is all knowing. No mattter how we advance as a civilization does not reflect on whether or not God changes. He told us in the Bible he is the same yesterday, today and forever. Today's morality is yesterday's immorality and is looked upon the same by God. He did not allow adultery or fornication or whoredoms in the past, He does not now nor will He ever. With that He declared that our bodies are Temples of God and are to be treated as such. Look at the clothing styles of today especially with women and the showing off of their bodies; does that make their bodies appear to be something they hold to be sacred?
The truth is we, as Christians, are happy to profess faith in God but not to excercise faith in Him. We all want truth on our side but do not necessarily want to stand on the side of truth...eternal truths. We are living hypocrites. I'm not saying we have to be perfect. While Jesus commanded us to be perfect He knew that we could not attain that in this lifetime and without His atonement it would be impossible. We can however strive to live the best we can striving constantly to improve and overcome bad habits and weaknesses. We are commanded to repent of our sins. To repent means to do it no more not to go out, do it again and repent again and again.
If we truely are Christians let us show it by our good works. Jesus gave the story of the good Samaritan. Samaritans were enemies of the Jews. Jews thought they were better. They would take extra time and walk around the land of Samaria rather than go through it. Jesus taught, however, that we should be like the Samaritan who showed love and kindness to a stranger in need and even gave of his own wealth to help one who was regarded as an enemy. Here we are having trouble getting along with our own families and next door neighbors let's not even start with our enemies.
We can do better. We must do better. Jesus Christ will return as promised, will we be ready to receive Him?
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