How can anyone follow Christ unless they takes up their cross and follow the promises of God. There are scores of people on this site that have no idea what it means to take up their cross. They have no idea what it means to bank on the promises of God. Therefore, they are dead and bankrupt spiritually, and don't even know it. They are so caught up in how they are being effected by everything around them and what they want out of life, that they have no concern for the things of God. They call themselves a Christian yet live just like everybody else. They want the same things, they desire the same things and think just like others. Then they get upset if things don't go right and get depressed and think that God doesn't love them. Some of them swear like a pirate and don't blink an eye because everybody else does it to. The 'F' word is even part of their vocabulary and it doesn't just slip out once and awhile either. They go to church and hear the word being preached and act like it's just another message and spend their time thinking about when will this be over, so they can go get something to eat. If you mention things like justification, the promises of God or the atonement, that goes right over their head and they just tune it out. If you ask them to pray with you, they don't have time. If you ask them to go soul winning, they tell you they don't feel good and maybe some other time. You ask them to lay their life down in some capacity to serve others, they tell you 'it's not them'.
They will read this post and think to themselves, who does this guy think he is. They will make some silly comment like, 'We've got to love one another and say kind things because that is what Christ would do' How about loving God and living by faith and start obeying what He has commanded us to do? How about laying your life down for others as Christ laid His life down for you? How about taking up your cross and stop complaining about details and love the lost by giving them the gospel? How about getting off your duffer and bear your brothers burden and spend time on your knees praying for others? How about if you stop searching for a husband or wife and develop your relationship with Christ' who you are going to be married to in heaven someday? Some claim that Christ is their only example that they would ever aspire to. Well, if He is your example are you following in His steps. He took up His cross are you taking up yours? He laid His life down for others are you doing the same? He preached the gospel everywhere He went are you doing that also? If any of this condemns you, maybe it is not me that's doing it but your own heart (1John 3:20). And thank God that He is greater than your heart. It just makes you wander what is going on in some people's heart and mind.
They will read this post and think to themselves, who does this guy think he is. They will make some silly comment like, 'We've got to love one another and say kind things because that is what Christ would do' How about loving God and living by faith and start obeying what He has commanded us to do? How about laying your life down for others as Christ laid His life down for you? How about taking up your cross and stop complaining about details and love the lost by giving them the gospel? How about getting off your duffer and bear your brothers burden and spend time on your knees praying for others? How about if you stop searching for a husband or wife and develop your relationship with Christ' who you are going to be married to in heaven someday? Some claim that Christ is their only example that they would ever aspire to. Well, if He is your example are you following in His steps. He took up His cross are you taking up yours? He laid His life down for others are you doing the same? He preached the gospel everywhere He went are you doing that also? If any of this condemns you, maybe it is not me that's doing it but your own heart (1John 3:20). And thank God that He is greater than your heart. It just makes you wander what is going on in some people's heart and mind.
