Monday the 19th

John 6: ²⁷Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. On him God the Father has placed his seal of approval."  ²⁸Then they asked him, "What must we do to do the works God requires?"  ²⁹Jesus answered, "The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.

 

We all go to different churches, we all have subtleties that make one church a little different from the next. The one thing we all have in common is to go out and do the work that God requires….and just what is that? Well Christ himself tells us right here…..believe in the one He has sent. Not go out and spread what we think our church means, but go out and preach Christ crucified!  We of faith are sometimes our own worst enemy, we get so far into the trees we cannot see the forest that surrounds us. The last study that was done on Christianity asked a very important question. What keeps you from being a Christian….any guess what the answer was?? Christians! When we look at the life of Christ we see love, all too often when we look at the works of some Christians  we see harshness. When we think of the life of Christ we think compassion, yet all to often we show more indifference than compassion. Christ set out to change the world by being a living example, so why do we so often condone the spread of Christianity by the use of bibles for clubs? What is the work that God requires? It is a very simple message, one that we should have no problem relaying to others. It is not what day we go to Church, it is not how often we celebrate the Lord’s supper, or what prayers you say,  and it is certainly not how many people we can get to come to Christ by hook or crook. It is all about the fact that God sent His only Son to hang on a cross, then defeat death, so that we all might have eternal life. That message will never come across clearly or convincingly, if we cannot learn to be living examples of the One living example. We serve the living God, our purpose is simple and clear, believe in the Lord, and let that belief sine into every corner of your life. So that you might radiate the love, the compassion, and the true concern for others that Christ so effortlessly graced this world with. This is our true work, this is our calling, let your belief be your calling card.

 

 

God Bless,

Brian Thetford

The New Covenant Church

www.thenewcovenantchurch.com

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