Not All Believing Is The Same

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