Have you made a
decision to believe in Jesus? Are you
ready to commit yourself to Him? This is
very different than believing in a good outcome, a certain view you hold about
Him or the way He should deal with your circumstances. Jesus Christ is not a doctrine or a weaver of
fairy tales put together in our minds.
He is the real Son of God and Son of Man and He is completely free to be
precisely who He is and not who we think He should be. Our disappointments come when we believe in
something about Christ rather than Christ.
We get discombobulated spiritually if we try to make a pet thought about
Christ and how we think He should do things what we believe. Even great men and women of God waste much
time trying to prove some doctrine they hold rather than build the bond with
Christ and let Him "show the doctrines" to us. Leaders throughout the ages have broken with
God to pursue a "work of God".
Rather than operating out of Christ and His life coming through them,
they live with the strength and wisdom of the flesh, not realizing how far they
have strayed from the Lord. Christ is
never less than what we have revealed of Him to us in Scripture and what He
shows us of Himself for all time will never contradict what has been said of
Him in the Bible. We may misunderstand
what we find in Scripture and believe something we shouldn't about Christ but
we are never wrong in believing in Christ.
He is forever our Savior and the keeper of our souls and that very love
of Christ we see in Him dying for us on the Cross will never be less than that
and later we will discover in fits and
starts just how much grander His love for us is than we have realized. You may need to give up your beliefs about
Christ but do not give up an ounce of your belief in Christ. Believe in Him during the bleak and dreary
nights and as the sun rises at the break of day, continue to believe in Him.
"My prayer is not for them alone. I pray also
for those who will believe in me through their message, that all of them may be
one, Father, just as you are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us so
that the world may believe that you have sent me. John 17:20-21 NIV
